Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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 debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.
Edsger Dijkstra
Anyone who has a wife and small kids knows that programming belongs to the easy things in life.
Anonymous
The best book on programming for the layman is "Alice in Wonderland"; but that's because it's the best book on anything for the layman.
Alan J. Perlis
Every program is a part of some other program and rarely fits.
Alan J. Perlis
A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
Alan J. Perlis
One who works with their hands is a laborer.
Anonymous
One who works with their hands and their mind is a craftsman.
One who works with their hands, mind and heart is an artist.
Fifty years of programming language research, and we end up with C++ ?
Richard A. O'Keefe
PHP is a minor evil perpetrated and created by incompetent amateurs, whereas Perl is a great and insidious evil perpetrated by skilled but perverted professionals.
Jon Ribbens