Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Your code is both good and original. Unfortunately the parts that are good are not original, and the parts that are original are not good.
Anonymous
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
Alan J. Perlis
If you can imagine a society in which the computer - robot is the only menial, you can imagine anything.
Alan J. Perlis
Yes, sometimes Perl looks like line noise to the uninitiated, but to the seasoned Perl programmer, it looks like checksummed line noise with a mission in life.
Randal Schwartz
You can write software expecting the hardware to be perfect, unfortunately hardware is not perfect and you have to fix it in code.
W. Giraud
Anything that can go wrong will go wrong, anything that can't go wrong will go wrong anyway.
Anonymous
For systems, the analogue of a face-lift is to add to the control graph an edge that creates a cycle, not just an additional node.
Alan J. Perlis
If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.
Robert X. Cringely
I invented the term Object-Oriented, and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
Alan Kay
C++ is to C as Lung Cancer is to Lung.
Anonymous