Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Making something variable is easy. Controlling duration of constancy is the trick.
Alan J. Perlis
Weeks of coding can save you hours of planning.
Anonymous
Think of all the psychic energy expended in seeking a fundamental distinction between "algorithm" and "program".
Alan J. Perlis
It takes an intelligent person to build something complex; it takes a genius to build something simple.
Anonymous
If a listener nods his head when you're explaining your program, wake him up.
Alan J. Perlis
You can't communicate complexity, only an awareness of it.
Alan J. Perlis
Debuggers don't remove bugs. They only show them in slow motion.
Anonymous
I would love to change the world, but they won't give me the source code.
Anonymous
Prolonged contact with the computer turns mathematicians into clerks and vice versa.
Alan J. Perlis
Giving pointers and threads to programmers is like giving whisky and car keys to teenagers.
P. J. O'Rourke