Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Use four digits. A new millenium is coming.
Jon Bentley (1976)
We have the mini and the micro computer. In what semantic niche would the pico computer fall?
Alan J. Perlis
What is the difference between a Turing machine and the modern computer? It's the same as that between Hillary's ascent of Everest and the establishment of a Hilton hotel on its peak.
Alan J. Perlis
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Antoine de Saint Exupéry
You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.
Alan J. Perlis
Profanity is the one language all programmers know best.
Anonymous
Motto for a research laboratory: What we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
Alan J. Perlis
The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.
Oswald Chambers
... what society overwhelmingly asks for is snake oil. Of course, the snake oil has the most impressive names — otherwise you would be selling nothing — like "Structured Analysis and Design", "Software Engineering", "Maturity Models", "Management Information Systems", "Integrated Project Support Environments" "Object Orientation" and "Business Process Re-engineering" (the latter three being known as IPSE, OO and BPR, respectively).
Edsger W. Dijkstra
It is easier to optimize correct code than to correct optimized code.
Anonymous