Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
We will never run out of things to program as long as there is a single program around.
Alan J. Perlis
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Sir Arthur C Clarke
Systems have sub-systems and sub-systems have sub- systems and so on ad infinitum - which is why we're always starting over.
Alan J. Perlis
Wherever there is modularity there is the potential for misunderstanding: Hiding information implies a need to check communication.
Alan J. Perlis
UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.
Dennis Ritchie
The more bizarre the behavior, the more stupid the mistake.
Ed's Law of Debugging
Good web applications should look like trifle.
Cal Henderson
One Page Principle: A specification that will not fit on one page of 8.5x11 inch paper cannot be understood.
Mark Ardis
One can't proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
Alan J. Perlis
There's a fine line between being on the leading edge and being in the lunatic fringe.
Frank Armstrong