Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
An ideal world is left as an exercise to the reader.
From Paul Graham's "On Lisp"
One does not learn computing by using a hand calculator, but one can forget arithmetic.
Alan J. Perlis
Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.
Andy Rooney
APL, I believe, can only be learned by writing one-liners–only by seeing in a sense, what you can compress into a line.
Alan J Perlis
The real money isn't in the software. It's in the service you build with that software.
Jeff Atwood
Never underestimate the disparity between developer excitement and user apathy.
Anonymous
A good system can't have a weak command language.
Alan J. Perlis
Question: How does a large software project get to be one year late? Answer: One day at a time!
Fred Brooks
Think of it! With VLSI we can pack 100 ENIACS in 1 sq. cm.
Alan J. Perlis
Code never lies, comments sometimes do.
Ron Jeffries