Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The best things are simple, but finding these simple things is not simple.
Anonymous
Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.
Alan Kay
Nothing is more permanent than a temporary solution.
Thomas' First Law
Development has two outputs... Code & Bugs
Anonymous
Remember, a great way to avoid broken code is to have less of it. The code that you never write will work forever.
Russ Olsen
Think of it this way: threads are like salt, not like pasta. You like salt, I like salt, we all like salt. But we eat more pasta.
Larry McVoy
In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
Alan J. Perlis
It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.
Hofstadter's Law
The goal of computation is the emulation of our synthetic abilities, not the understanding of our analytic ones.
Alan J. Perlis
Purely applicative languages are poorly applicable.
Alan J. Perlis