Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Software is either testable or detestable.
Anonymous
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Antoine de Saint Exupéry
[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
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
Douglas Adams
So many good ideas are never heard from again once they embark in a voyage on the semantic gulf.
Alan J. Perlis
All programmers are optimists.
Frederick Brooks
Functions delay binding; data structures induce binding. Moral: Structure data late in the programming process.
Alan J. Perlis
To iterate is human, to recurse divine.
L. Peter Deutsch
There is nothing quite so permanent as a quick fix.
Anonymous
If you can imagine a society in which the computer - robot is the only menial, you can imagine anything.
Alan J. Perlis