Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
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
To understand a program you must become both the machine and the program.
Alan J. Perlis
Purely applicative languages are poorly applicable.
Alan J. Perlis
Easy things should be easy and hard things should be possible.
Larry Wall
If you have a procedure with ten parameters, you probably missed some.
Alan J. Perlis
APL, I believe, can only be learned by writing one-liners–only by seeing in a sense, what you can compress into a line.
Alan J Perlis
C++: an octopus made by nailing extra legs onto a dog.
Steve Taylor
The string is a stark data structure and everywhere it is passed there is much duplication of process. It is a perfect vehicle for hiding information.
Alan J. Perlis
Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.
George S. Patton
Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.
Anonymous