Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
Alan J. Perlis
Documentation is like term insurance: It satisfies because almost no one who subscribes to it depends on its benefits.
Alan J. Perlis
You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.
Alan J. Perlis
There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult.
C.A.R. Hoare.
For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
H L Mencken
All problems in computer science can be solved with another level of indirection.
David Wheeler
It's hard enough to find an error in your code when you're looking for it; it's even harder when you've assumed your code is error-free.
Steve McConnell
He who hasn't hacked assembly language as a youth has no heart. He who does as an adult has no brain.
John Moore
It is not a language's weakness but its strengths that control the gradient of its change: Alas, a language never escapes its embryonic sac.
Alan J. Perlis
Complexity has nothing to do with intelligence, simplicity does.
Larry Bossidy