Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
I invented the term Object-Oriented, and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
Alan Kay
Systems have sub-systems and sub-systems have sub- systems and so on ad infinitum - which is why we're always starting over.
Alan J. Perlis
There's more than one way to do it.
Larry Wall about Perl
Symmetry is a complexity-reducing concept (co-routines include subroutines); seek it everywhere.
Alan J. Perlis
Inside every complex program is a simple program trying to get out.
Anonymous
An adequate bootstrap is a contradiction in terms.
Alan J. Perlis
Some programmers try to reach higher by standing on other programmers' shoulders. Other programmers try to reach higher by standing on other programmers' toes.
Anonymous
Software with no bugs is obsolete.
Anonymous
If a listener nods his head when you're explaining your program, wake him up.
Alan J. Perlis
If we can't fix it, then it ain't broke.
Jon Bentley