Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
You can't communicate complexity, only an awareness of it.
Alan J. Perlis
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
Niels Bohr
Programmers usually have good reasons for making bad decisions.
Anonymous
FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed — it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.
Alan J. Perlis
Structured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.
Alan J. Perlis
I think Microsoft named .Net so it wouldn't show up in a Unix directory listing.
Oktal
The only constructive theory connecting neuroscience and psychology will arise from the study of software.
Alan J. Perlis
The function of good software is to make the complex appear to be simple.
Grady Booch
I would love to change the world, but they won't give me the source code.
Anonymous
A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
Alan J. Perlis