Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
God could create the world in six days because he didn't have to make it compatible with the previous version.
Anonymous
Perspective is worth 80 I.Q. points
Alan Kay
A good programmer looks both ways before crossing a one-way street.
Anonymous
Don’t fix bugs later; fix them now.
Steve Maguire
There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use.
Freeman Dyson
Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
Alan Kay
Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to see it as a soap bubble?
Alan J. Perlis
In software systems, it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
Alan J. Perlis
It's difficult to extract sense from strings, but they're the only communication coin we can count on.
Alan J. Perlis
The evolution of languages: FORTRAN is a non-typed language. C is a weakly typed language. Ada is a strongly typed language. C++ is a strongly hyped language.
Ron Sercely