Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Good judgement is the result of experience ... Experience is the result of bad judgement.
Fred Brooks
... what society overwhelmingly asks for is snake oil. Of course, the snake oil has the most impressive names — otherwise you would be selling nothing — like "Structured Analysis and Design", "Software Engineering", "Maturity Models", "Management Information Systems", "Integrated Project Support Environments" "Object Orientation" and "Business Process Re-engineering" (the latter three being known as IPSE, OO and BPR, respectively).
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.
Martin Fowler
Anyone who has a wife and small kids knows that programming belongs to the easy things in life.
Anonymous
The goal of Computer Science is to build something that will last at least until we've finished building it.
Anonymous
[Perl] combines all the worst aspects of C and Lisp: a billion different sublanguages in one monolithic executable. It combines the power of C with the readability of PostScript.
Jamie Zawinski
The cybernetic exchange between man, computer and algorithm is like a game of musical chairs: The frantic search for balance always leaves one of the three standing ill at ease.
Alan J. Perlis
Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen.
Edward V Berard
One can't proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
Alan J. Perlis
Motto for a research laboratory: What we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
Alan J. Perlis