Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
I have found that the reason a lot of people are interested in artificial intelligence is the same reason a lot of people are interested in artificial limbs: they are missing one.
David Parnas
You have to "solve" the problem once in order to clearly define it and then solve it again to create a solution that works.
Anonymous
Fifty years of programming language research, and we end up with C++ ?
Richard A. O'Keefe
When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
Alan J. Perlis
Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.
Andy Rooney
Python's syntax succeeds in combining the mistakes of Lisp and Fortran. I do not construe that as progress.
Larry Wall
Recursion is the root of computation since it trades description for time.
Alan J. Perlis
To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer.
Paul Ehrlich
Question: How does a large software project get to be one year late? Answer: One day at a time!
Fred Brooks
In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
Alan J. Perlis