Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Structured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.
Alan J. Perlis
The best code is no code at all.
Anonymous
If two people write exactly the same program, each should be put into microcode and then they certainly won't be the same.
Alan J. Perlis
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
Though the Chinese should adore APL, it's FORTRAN they put their money on.
Alan J. Perlis
We will never run out of things to program as long as there is a single program around.
Alan J. Perlis
Make no mistake about it: Computers process numbers - not symbols. We measure our understanding (and control) by the extent to which we can arithmetize an activity.
Alan J. Perlis
God is a hacker, not an engineer. You can do reverse engineering, but you can’t do reverse hacking.
Francis Crick
Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.
Cory Doctorow
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
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