Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Purely applicative languages are poorly applicable.
Alan J. Perlis
We're even wrong about which mistakes we're making.
Carl Winfeld
APL, I believe, can only be learned by writing one-liners–only by seeing in a sense, what you can compress into a line.
Alan J Perlis
The best things are simple, but finding these simple things is not simple.
Anonymous
Everyone can be taught to sculpt: Michelangelo would have had to be taught not to. So it is with great programmers.
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
I get as much enjoyment from trashing code as I do from scratching it out in the first place!
Anonymous
Team debugging: the act of intimidating a PC into doing for two people what it refuses to do for one.
Anonymous
They won't tell you that they don't understand it; they will happily invent their way through the gaps and obscurities.
V.A. Vyssotsky on software programmers and their views on specifications
Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.
Edsger Dijkstra