Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
Alan J. Perlis
Programming can be fun, so can cryptography; however they should not be combined.
Kreitzberg and Shneiderman
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction.
E.F. Schumacher
Anyone who considers arithmetic methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin.
John von Neumann
If a program manipulates a large amount of data, it does so in a small number of ways.
Alan J. Perlis
There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use.
Freeman Dyson
The bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned. Many software tasks have this characteristic because of the sequential nature of debugging.
Fred Brooks
The greatest performance improvement of all is when a system goes from not-working to working.
John Ousterhout
The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Don’t fix bugs later; fix them now.
Steve Maguire