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
Most people find the concept of programming obvious, but the doing impossible.
Alan J. Perlis
Anyone who considers arithmetic methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin.
John von Neumann
FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed — it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.
Alan J. Perlis
As Will Rogers would have said, "There is no such thing as a free variable."
Alan J. Perlis
Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from a rigged demonstration.
Anonymous
Re graphics: A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
Alan J. Perlis
In effect, we conjure the spirits of the computer with our spells.
From SICP
In software systems, it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
Alan J. Perlis
If you don't think you're doing great things, you're probably right.
Anonymous