Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Users are a terrible thing. Systems would be infinitely more stable without them.
Michael T. Nygard.
Purely applicative languages are poorly applicable.
Alan J. Perlis
Weeks of coding can save you hours of planning.
Anonymous
Think of all the psychic energy expended in seeking a fundamental distinction between "algorithm" and "program".
Alan J. Perlis
Every dark corner you haven't explored with your flashlight is full of bugs.
Kent Beck and Martin Fowler
A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
Alan J. Perlis
It is not the computer's fault that Maxwell's equations are not adequate to design the electric motor.
Alan J. Perlis
A good system can't have a weak command language.
Alan J. Perlis
You can't solve social problems through technical means.
Anonymous
In a 5 year period we get one superb programming language. Only we can't control when the 5 year period will be.
Alan J. Perlis