Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
Harlan Ellison
So many good ideas are never heard from again once they embark in a voyage on the semantic gulf.
Alan J. Perlis
Purely applicative languages are poorly applicable.
Alan J. Perlis
Get into a rut early: Do the same process the same way. Accumulate idioms. Standardize. The only difference(!) between Shakespeare and you was the size of his idiom list - not the size of his vocabulary.
Alan J. Perlis
When a professional race car driver races, his pulse gets lower and he relaxes.
Jun-ichiro Hagino
When I code it is the same thing.
APL, I believe, can only be learned by writing one-liners–only by seeing in a sense, what you can compress into a line.
Alan J Perlis
I invented the term Object-Oriented, and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
Alan Kay
The only constructive theory connecting neuroscience and psychology will arise from the study of software.
Alan J. Perlis
In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
Alan J. Perlis
It makes no sense to try to do what we can. We must do what is necessary.
Winston Churchill