Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
Alan J. Perlis
When we understand knowledge-based systems, it will be as before -- except our fingertips will have been singed.
Alan J. Perlis
Sometimes, the elegant implementation is just a function. Not a method. Not a class. Not a framework. Just a function.
John Carmack
It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program. What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail and learning to be self-critical?
Alan J. Perlis
Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.
Cory Doctorow
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If it's original, you'll have to ram it down their throats.
Howard Aiken
Question: How does a large software project get to be one year late? Answer: One day at a time!
Fred Brooks
Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written, and another for which it wasn't.
Alan J. Perlis
Designing software in a team is like writing poetry in a committee meeting.
Joel Spolsky
Process is no substitute for synaptic activity.
Jeff DeLuca