Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
Alan J. Perlis
You can write software expecting the hardware to be perfect, unfortunately hardware is not perfect and you have to fix it in code.
W. Giraud
Change breaks the brittle.
Jan Houtema
It takes an intelligent person to build something complex; it takes a genius to build something simple.
Anonymous
It is the user who should parameterize procedures, not their creators.
Alan J. Perlis
Hardware is the part of a system you can kick. Software is the one you can only curse at.
Anonymous
You think you know when you can learn, are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
Alan J. Perlis
When it comes to code it never pays to rush.
Marick's Law
Making something variable is easy. Controlling duration of constancy is the trick.
Alan J. Perlis
There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use.
Freeman Dyson