Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The use of a program to prove the 4-color theorem will not change mathematics - it merely demonstrates that the theorem, a challenge for a century, is probably not important to mathematics.
Alan J. Perlis
I'm not a great programmer; I'm just a good programmer with great habits.
Kent Beck
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
If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
Alan J. Perlis
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
Pablo Picasso
Easy things should be easy and hard things should be possible.
Larry Wall
Software isn't about methodologies, languages, or even operating systems. It is about working applications.
Christopher Baus
When we write programs that "learn", it turns out that we do and they don't.
Alan J. Perlis
Process is no substitute for synaptic activity.
Jeff DeLuca
Structured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.
Alan J. Perlis