Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The difference between theory and practice is smaller in theory than in practice.
Anonymous
If you can imagine a society in which the computer - robot is the only menial, you can imagine anything.
Alan J. Perlis
Before software should be reusable, it should be usable.
Ralph Johnson
Behind Every Successful Coder, there'an even more successful De-Coder to understand that Code.
Anonymous
Perl - The only language that looks the same before and after RSA encryption.
Keith Bostic
There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use.
Freeman Dyson
If your bug has a one in a million chance of happening, it'll happen next tuesday.
Anonymous
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that it's all learned.
Bruce Ediger
What is the difference between a Turing machine and the modern computer? It's the same as that between Hillary's ascent of Everest and the establishment of a Hilton hotel on its peak.
Alan J. Perlis
As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought.
Maurice Wilkes