Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Easy things should be easy and hard things should be possible.
Larry Wall
Just don't create a file called -rf.
Larry Wall
If we'd asked the customers what they wanted, they would have said "faster horses".
Henry Ford
The structure of software systems tend to reflect the structure of the organization that produce them.
Douglas Crocford
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
Alan J. Perlis
The most important computer is the one that rages in our skulls and ever seeks that satisfactory external emulator. The standarization of real computers would be a disaster - and so it probably won't happen.
Alan J. Perlis
Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.
Martin Fowler
I was a C++ programmer before I started designing Ruby. I programmed in C++ exclusively for two or three years. And after two years of C++ programming, it still surprised me.
Matz
The computer is the ultimate polluter: its feces are indistinguish- able from the food it produces.
Alan J. Perlis
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
Alan J. Perlis