Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen.
Edward V Berard
Rules are for the obedience of the inexperienced and the guidance of the wise.
Anonymous
Fight code entropy.
John Carmack
All programmers are optimists.
Frederick Brooks
Whenever two programmers meet to criticize their programs, both are silent.
Alan J. Perlis
The use of a program to prove the 4-color theorem will not change mathematics - it merely demonstrates that the theorem, a challenge for a century, is probably not important to mathematics.
Alan J. Perlis
Any sufficiently well-documented lisp program contains an ML program in its comments.
Anonymous
It is often easier to not do something dumb than it is to do something smart.
Anonymous
Sometimes I think the only universal in the computing field is the fetch-execute cycle.
Alan J. Perlis
Software and cathedrals are much the same - first we build them, then we pray.
Anonymous