Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing.
Alan J. Perlis
Three things should never be seen in the process of being created: laws, sausage, and software.
Anonymous
Think of it! With VLSI we can pack 100 ENIACS in 1 sq. cm.
Alan J. Perlis
One does not learn computing by using a hand calculator, but one can forget arithmetic.
Alan J. Perlis
God could create the world in six days because he didn't have to make it compatible with the previous version.
Anonymous
Starting a startup is hard, but having a 9 to 5 job is hard too, and in some ways a worse kind of hard.
Paul Graham
Computers are getting smarter all the time. Scientists tell us that soon they will be able to talk to us. (And by 'they', I mean 'computers'. I doubt scientists will ever be able to talk to us.)
Dave Barry
Users are a terrible thing. Systems would be infinitely more stable without them.
Michael T. Nygard.
Remember, a great way to avoid broken code is to have less of it. The code that you never write will work forever.
Russ Olsen
Why did the Roman Empire collapse? What is Latin for office automation?
Alan J. Perlis