Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Beware of the Turing tar-pit in which everything is possible but nothing of interest is easy.
Alan J. Perlis
Programming is not like being in the CIA; you don't get credit for being sneaky. It's more like advertising; you get lots of credit for making your connections as blatant as possible.
Steve McConnell on coupling from, "Code Complete."
An idiot with a computer is a faster, better idiot.
Rich Julius
In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
Alan J. Perlis
Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.
Cory Doctorow
It's OK to figure out murder mysteries, but you shouldn't need to figure out code. You should be able to read it.
Steve McConnell
Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.
Edsger Dijkstra
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
Human beings are not accustomed to being perfect, and few areas of human activity demand it. Adjusting to the requirement for perfection is, I think, the most difficult part of learning to program.
Anonymous
If a program manipulates a large amount of data, it does so in a small number of ways.
Alan J. Perlis