Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
We kid ourselves if we think that the ratio of procedure to data in an active data-base system can be made arbitrarily small or even kept small.
Alan J. Perlis
If a listener nods his head when you're explaining your program, wake him up.
Alan J. Perlis
There's a fine line between being on the leading edge and being in the lunatic fringe.
Frank Armstrong
Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use regular expressions." Now they have two problems.
Jamie Zawinski
Multitasking is the art of distracting yourself from two things you’d rather not be doing by doing them simultaneously.
Anonymous
There's more than one way to do it.
Larry Wall about Perl
You can't communicate complexity, only an awareness of it.
Alan J. Perlis
if you are a programmer working in 2003 and you don't know the basics of characters, character sets, encodings, and Unicode, and I catch you, I'm going to punish you by making you peel onions for 6 months in a submarine.
Joel Spolsky
The proof of a system's value is its existence.
Alan J. Perlis
The debate rages on: is PL/I Bachtrian or Dromedary?
Alan J. Perlis