Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
It's difficult to extract sense from strings, but they're the only communication coin we can count on.
Alan J. Perlis
Giving up on assembly language was the apple in our Garden of Eden: Languages whose use squanders machine cycles are sinful. The LISP machine now permits LISP programmers to abandon bra and fig-leaf.
Alan J. Perlis
Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
Isaac Asimov
The reason we plan ahead is so that we don't have to do anything right now.
Anonymous
The most important computer is the one that rages in our skulls and ever seeks that satisfactory external emulator. The standarization of real computers would be a disaster - and so it probably won't happen.
Alan J. Perlis
Code is everything I thought poetry was, back when we were in school. Clean, expressive, urgent, all-encompassing. Fourteen lines can open up to fill the available universe.
Richard Powers
Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written, and another for which it wasn't.
Alan J. Perlis
To iterate is human, to recurse divine.
L. Peter Deutsch
Three things should never be seen in the process of being created: laws, sausage, and software.
Anonymous
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
Isaac Asimov