Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word "frustration".
Alan J. Perlis
It seems to me you can program with discipline or you can program with bondage and discipline. You can't avoid the discipline either way, but bondage appeals to some people.
Patrick Logan
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
Alan J. Perlis
So many good ideas are never heard from again once they embark in a voyage on the semantic gulf.
Alan J. Perlis
If you're going to break it, then break it good. Break everything. Get to the very front of the line. Don't like move up a couple of slots. That's pointless.
Anders Hejlsberg
Designing software in a team is like writing poetry in a committee meeting.
Joel Spolsky
Ever spend a little time reading comp.lang.c++ ? That's really the best place to learn about the number of C++ users looking for a better language.
R. William Beckwith
The real money isn't in the software. It's in the service you build with that software.
Jeff Atwood
I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone.
Bjarne Stroustrup
We have the mini and the micro computer. In what semantic niche would the pico computer fall?
Alan J. Perlis