Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The proof of a system's value is its existence.
Alan J. Perlis
As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought.
Maurice Wilkes
It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than 10 functions on 10 data structures.
Alan J. Perlis
80 percent of my problems are simple logic errors. 80 percent of the remaining problems are pointer errors. The remaining problems are hard.
Mark Donner, IBM Watson Research Center
Though the Chinese should adore APL, it's FORTRAN they put their money on.
Alan J. Perlis
Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first, it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self-evident.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Software is hard.
Donald Knuth
Wherever there is modularity there is the potential for misunderstanding: Hiding information implies a need to check communication.
Alan J. Perlis
Structured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.
Alan J. Perlis
Use four digits. A new millenium is coming.
Jon Bentley (1976)