Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The debate rages on: is PL/I Bachtrian or Dromedary?
Alan J. Perlis
Test driven development is like eating watermelon. Slice it up and work in sections at a time; eat all the red until all you have left is green.
Terry L Thompson
Motto for a research laboratory: What we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
Alan J. Perlis
* No technique works if it isn't used.
Niven's laws
* Ethics change with technology.
* "F × S = k" the product of freedom and security is a constant.
Java is to JavaScript what Car is to Carpet.
Chris Heilmann
Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter.
Eric Raymond
The idea that I can be presented with a problem, set out to logically solve it with the tools at hand, and wind up with a program that could not be legally used because someone else followed the same logical steps some years ago and filed for a patent on it is horrifying.
John Carmack on software patents
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
A fool with a tool is still a fool.
Anonymous