Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Think of all the psychic energy expended in seeking a fundamental distinction between "algorithm" and "program".
Alan J. Perlis
People who think, "Oh this is a one-off," need to be offed, or perhaps politely removed from the project.
George Neville-Neil
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
You can't communicate complexity, only an awareness of it.
Alan J. Perlis
Compatibility means deliberately repeating other people's mistakes.
Anonymous
All programmers are optimists.
Frederick Brooks
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
Niels Bohr
As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought.
Maurice Wilkes
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
Alan J. Perlis
... one of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs.
Robert Firth