Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The goal of computation is the emulation of our synthetic abilities, not the understanding of our analytic ones.
Alan J. Perlis
It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than 10 functions on 10 data structures.
Alan J. Perlis
Editing is a rewording activity.
Alan J. Perlis
If your bug has a one in a million chance of happening, it'll happen next tuesday.
Anonymous
Java. The elegant simplicity of C++. The blazing speed of Smalltalk.
Anonymous
Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.
Albert Einstein
From a programmer's point of view, the user is a peripheral that types when you issue a read request.
Peter Williams
I hate code, and I want as little of it in our product as possible.
Jack Diederich
Perhaps if we wrote programs from childhood on, as adults we'd be able to read them.
Alan J. Perlis
Think twice before you start programming or you will program twice before you start thinking.
Anonymous