Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Bringing computers into the home won't change either one, but may revitalize the corner saloon.
Alan J. Perlis
Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to see it as a soap bubble?
Alan J. Perlis
Editing is a rewording activity.
Alan J. Perlis
There's no test like production.
Anonymous
Are you quite sure that all those bells and whistles, all those wonderful facilities of your so called powerful programming languages, belong to the solution set rather than the problem set?
Edsger W. Dijkstra
I'm not a great programmer; I'm just a good programmer with great habits.
Kent Beck
If a program manipulates a large amount of data, it does so in a small number of ways.
Alan J. Perlis
In essence, let the market design the product.
Paul Graham
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.
I would love to change the world, but they won't give me the source code.
Anonymous