Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If a listener nods his head when you're explaining your program, wake him up.
Alan J. Perlis
I would love to change the world, but they won't give me the source code.
Anonymous
In software systems, it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
Alan J. Perlis
The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague.
Edsger Dijkstra
Most people find the concept of programming obvious, but the doing impossible.
Alan J. Perlis
If you require information, do not free memory containing the information.
MSDN
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
Alan J. Perlis
The structure of software systems tend to reflect the structure of the organization that produce them.
Douglas Crocford
Programming is an unnatural act.
Alan J. Perlis
Functions delay binding; data structures induce binding. Moral: Structure data late in the programming process.
Alan J. Perlis