Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
How do we convince people that in programming simplicity and clarity —in short: what mathematicians call "elegance"— are not a dispensable luxury, but a crucial matter that decides between success and failure?
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Like a gas, software expands to fill its containing memory completely.
Anonymous
There is no IRL, only AFK
Anonymous
Re graphics: A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
Alan J. Perlis
Process is no substitute for synaptic activity.
Jeff DeLuca
The computer is the ultimate polluter: its feces are indistinguish- able from the food it produces.
Alan J. Perlis
If you can imagine a society in which the computer - robot is the only menial, you can imagine anything.
Alan J. Perlis
If you can build it, your users can break it.
Anonymous
People who think, "Oh this is a one-off," need to be offed, or perhaps politely removed from the project.
George Neville-Neil
You can stand on the shoulders of giants OR a big enough pile of dwarfs, works either way.
Anonymous