Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
In computing, invariants are ephemeral.
Alan J. Perlis
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
Vincent van Gogh
It makes no sense to try to do what we can. We must do what is necessary.
Winston Churchill
If you have a procedure with ten parameters, you probably missed some.
Alan J. Perlis
Prolonged contact with the computer turns mathematicians into clerks and vice versa.
Alan J. Perlis
Every program is a part of some other program and rarely fits.
Alan J. Perlis
Though a program be but three lines long, someday it will have to be maintained.
Tao Of Programming
It is not a language's weakness but its strengths that control the gradient of its change: Alas, a language never escapes its embryonic sac.
Alan J. Perlis
If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.
Robert X. Cringely
The cybernetic exchange between man, computer and algorithm is like a game of musical chairs: The frantic search for balance always leaves one of the three standing ill at ease.
Alan J. Perlis