Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
In software systems, it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
Alan J. Perlis
Purely applicative languages are poorly applicable.
Alan J. Perlis
Bringing computers into the home won't change either one, but may revitalize the corner saloon.
Alan J. Perlis
Users are a terrible thing. Systems would be infinitely more stable without them.
Michael T. Nygard.
The key to performance is elegance, not battalions of special cases.
Jon Bentley and Doug McIlroy
Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.
Clark's law
Sometimes I think the only universal in the computing field is the fetch-execute cycle.
Alan J. Perlis
A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing.
Alan J. Perlis
In the long run every program becomes rococo - then rubble.
Alan J. Perlis
There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.
Bjarne Stroustrup