Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
All parts should go together without forcing. You must remember that the parts you are reassembling were disassembled by you. Therefore, if you can't get them together again, there must be a reason. By all means, do not use a hammer.
IBM Manual, 1925
No code is faster than no code.
Anonymous
It is not a language's weakness but its strengths that control the gradient of its change: Alas, a language never escapes its embryonic sac.
Alan J. Perlis
Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.
Alan Kay
It takes an intelligent person to build something complex; it takes a genius to build something simple.
Anonymous
The proof of a system's value is its existence.
Alan J. Perlis
A good programmer looks both ways before crossing a one-way street.
Anonymous
There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
Jeremy S. Anderson
The best book on programming for the layman is "Alice in Wonderland"; but that's because it's the best book on anything for the layman.
Alan J. Perlis
I would love to change the world, but they won't give me the source code.
Anonymous