Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.
Alan Kay
The Internet? Is that thing still around?
Homer Simpson
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
Alan J. Perlis
It makes no sense to try to do what we can. We must do what is necessary.
Winston Churchill
You think you know when you can learn, are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
Alan J. Perlis
Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen.
Edward V Berard
The real money isn't in the software. It's in the service you build with that software.
Jeff Atwood
Program testing can be a very effective way to show the presence of bugs, but is hopelessly inadequate for showing their absence.
Edsger Dijkstra
It is easier to port a shell than a shell script.
Larry Wall
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