Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Software is either testable or detestable.
Anonymous
Purely applicative languages are poorly applicable.
Alan J. Perlis
Python's syntax succeeds in combining the mistakes of Lisp and Fortran. I do not construe that as progress.
Larry Wall
Nothing is more permanent than a temporary solution.
Thomas' First Law
Processes and methodologies can make good servants but are poor masters.
Mark Dowd, John McDonald & Justin Schuh
In the long run every program becomes rococo - then rubble.
Alan J. Perlis
Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.
Cory Doctorow
When a programming language is created that allows programmers to program in simple English, it will be discovered that programmers cannot speak English.
Anonymous
A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
Alan J. Perlis
Structured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.
Alan J. Perlis