Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
Alan J. Perlis
Recursion is the root of computation since it trades description for time.
Alan J. Perlis
The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late."
Seymour Cray
The greatest performance improvement of all is when a system goes from not-working to working.
John Ousterhout
The use of a program to prove the 4-color theorem will not change mathematics - it merely demonstrates that the theorem, a challenge for a century, is probably not important to mathematics.
Alan J. Perlis
One who works with their hands is a laborer.
Anonymous
One who works with their hands and their mind is a craftsman.
One who works with their hands, mind and heart is an artist.
Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.
Anonymous
Around computers it is difficult to find the correct unit of time to measure progress. Some cathedrals took a century to complete. Can you imagine the grandeur and scope of a program that would take as long?
Alan J. Perlis
Easy things should be easy and hard things should be possible.
Larry Wall
Think of it! With VLSI we can pack 100 ENIACS in 1 sq. cm.
Alan J. Perlis