Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If you lie to the compiler, it will get its revenge.
Henry Spencere
Get into a rut early: Do the same process the same way. Accumulate idioms. Standardize. The only difference(!) between Shakespeare and you was the size of his idiom list - not the size of his vocabulary.
Alan J. Perlis
When all you have is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail.
Anonymous
Any technology that surpasses 50% penetration will never double again (in any number of months).
Peter Norvig's law
If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
Alan J. Perlis
On the 7th day ... God began debugging.
Anonymous
KISS - Keep It Simple Stupid
Anonymous
In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word "frustration".
Alan J. Perlis
You can't communicate complexity, only an awareness of it.
Alan J. Perlis
In order to understand recursion, one must first understand recursion.
Anonymous