Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Prolonged contact with the computer turns mathematicians into clerks and vice versa.
Alan J. Perlis
A good system can't have a weak command language.
Alan J. Perlis
Good architecture is necessary to give programs enough structure to be able to grow large without collapsing into a puddle of confusion.
Douglas Crockford
I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone.
Bjarne Stroustrup
There are 10 types of people. Those who can read ternary, those who can't and those who mistake it for binary.
Anonymous
If we can't fix it, then it ain't broke.
Jon Bentley
Interfaces keep things tidy, but don't accelerate growth: Functions do.
Alan J. Perlis
[Perl] combines all the worst aspects of C and Lisp: a billion different sublanguages in one monolithic executable. It combines the power of C with the readability of PostScript.
Jamie Zawinski
One man's constant is another man's variable.
Alan J. Perlis
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