Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The only constructive theory connecting neuroscience and psychology will arise from the study of software.
Alan J. Perlis
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
Vincent van Gogh
It's 5.50 a.m.... Do you know where your stack pointer is?
Anonymous
The whole HTML validation exercise is questionable, but validating as XHTML is flat-out masochism. Only recommended for those that enjoy pain. Or programmers. I can't always tell the difference.
Jeff Atwood
In the good old days physicists repeated each other's experiments, just to be sure. Today they stick to FORTRAN, so that they can share each other's programs, bugs included.
Edsger W. Dijkstra
It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.
Alan J. Perlis
In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
Alan J. Perlis
Recursion is the root of computation since it trades description for time.
Alan J. Perlis
FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed — it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.
Alan J. Perlis
Often it is the means that justify the ends: Goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
Alan J. Perlis