Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Systems have sub-systems and sub-systems have sub- systems and so on ad infinitum - which is why we're always starting over.
Alan J. Perlis
In programming, everything we do is a special case of something more general -- and often we know it too quickly.
Alan J. Perlis
When a professional race car driver races, his pulse gets lower and he relaxes.
Jun-ichiro Hagino
When I code it is the same thing.
A programmer never dies he just degrades gracefully.
Anonymous
Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to see it as a soap bubble?
Alan J. Perlis
It works on my machine.
Anonymous
The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.
Oswald Chambers
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Antoine de Saint Exupéry
Three things should never be seen in the process of being created: laws, sausage, and software.
Anonymous
We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat's next-to-last theorem.
Alan J. Perlis