Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Whatever code we hack, be it programming language, poetic language, math or music, curves or colourings, we create the possibility of new things entering the world. Not always great things, or even good things, but new things.
McKenzie Wark in "A hacker Manifesto":02
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
Alan J. Perlis
Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
Alan J. Perlis
Why did the Roman Empire collapse? What is Latin for office automation?
Alan J. Perlis
If we can't fix it, then it ain't broke.
Jon Bentley
A documented bug is not a bug; it is a feature.
James P. MacLennan
Software is either testable or detestable.
Anonymous
In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
Alan J. Perlis
There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult.
C.A.R. Hoare.
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
Alan J. Perlis