Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
With regard to adding more programmers to get a project done faster - Nine people can't make a baby in a month.
Fred Brooks
Over the centuries the Indians developed sign language for communicating phenomena of interest. Programmers from different tribes (FORTRAN, LISP, ALGOL, SNOBOL, etc.) could use one that doesn't require them to carry a blackboard on their ponies.
Alan J. Perlis
Within a computer natural language is unnatural.
Alan J. Perlis
When a professional race car driver races, his pulse gets lower and he relaxes.
Jun-ichiro Hagino
When I code it is the same thing.
Programming can be fun, so can cryptography; however they should not be combined.
Kreitzberg and Shneiderman
I hate code, and I want as little of it in our product as possible.
Jack Diederich
An adequate bootstrap is a contradiction in terms.
Alan J. Perlis
I (...) am rarely happier than when spending an entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that would otherwise take me a good ten seconds to do by hand.
Douglas Adams
Though the Chinese should adore APL, it's FORTRAN they put their money on.
Alan J. Perlis
A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing.
Alan J. Perlis