Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
One does not learn computing by using a hand calculator, but one can forget arithmetic.
Alan J. Perlis
Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.
Andy Rooney
In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word "frustration".
Alan J. Perlis
Any set of procedures, no matter how well intentioned or useful, that are too difficult to follow, will be circumvented.
Ravera's First Law of System Administration
Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.
Alan Kay
Behind Every Successful Coder, there'an even more successful De-Coder to understand that Code.
Anonymous
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
Pablo Picasso
There are 10 types of people in the world, those who can read binary, and those who can't.
Anonymous
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
Make it correct,
Wes Dyer
make it clear,
make it concise,
make it fast.
In that order.