Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
In a 5 year period we get one superb programming language. Only we can't control when the 5 year period will be.
Alan J. Perlis
Designing software in a team is like writing poetry in a committee meeting.
Joel Spolsky
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Antoine de Saint Exupéry
Making something variable is easy. Controlling duration of constancy is the trick.
Alan J. Perlis
Going from programming in Pascal to programming in C, is like learning to write in Morse code.
J.P. Candusso
If two people write exactly the same program, each should be put into microcode and then they certainly won't be the same.
Alan J. Perlis
One can't proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
Alan J. Perlis
It's not what the software does. It's what the user does.
Hugh Macleod
Programmer - an organism that turns coffee into software.
Anonymous
If C didn't exist, we would be programming in OBOL, PASAL or BASI
Anonymous