Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The Floppy Disk Icon means "save" for a whole generation of people who have never seen one.
Scott Hanselman
Wherever there is modularity there is the potential for misunderstanding: Hiding information implies a need to check communication.
Alan J. Perlis
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
Programming can be fun, so can cryptography; however they should not be combined.
Kreitzberg and Shneiderman
If you have a procedure with ten parameters, you probably missed some.
Alan J. Perlis
The C Programming Language — A language which combines the flexibility of assembly language with the power of assembly language.
Anonymous
The cybernetic exchange between man, computer and algorithm is like a game of musical chairs: The frantic search for balance always leaves one of the three standing ill at ease.
Alan J. Perlis
A programmer started to cuss
Anonymous
Because getting to sleep was a fuss
As he lay there in bed
Looping 'round in his head
was: while(!asleep()) sheep++;
If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough.
Alan Kay
If a listener nods his head when you're explaining your program, wake him up.
Alan J. Perlis