Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The best book on programming for the layman is "Alice in Wonderland"; but that's because it's the best book on anything for the layman.
Alan J. Perlis
We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat's next-to-last theorem.
Alan J. Perlis
One does not learn computing by using a hand calculator, but one can forget arithmetic.
Alan J. Perlis
Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls must dive down below.
John Dryden
A program without a loop and a structured variable isn't worth writing.
Alan J. Perlis
I don't care if it works on your machine! We are not shipping your machine!
Ovidiu Platon
What is the difference between a Turing machine and the modern computer? It's the same as that between Hillary's ascent of Everest and the establishment of a Hilton hotel on its peak.
Alan J. Perlis
You can't communicate complexity, only an awareness of it.
Alan J. Perlis
I'll try to be nicer if you try to be smarter.
Assaf Nitzan
A good programmer looks both ways before crossing a one-way street.
Anonymous