Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Development has two outputs... Code & Bugs
Anonymous
In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they're not.
Anonymous
Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.
Alan Kay
If a listener nods his head when you're explaining your program, wake him up.
Alan J. Perlis
Good enough is neither.
Jim Spivey
When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
Alan J. Perlis
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
Douglas Adams
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
I'll try to be nicer if you try to be smarter.
Assaf Nitzan
There are only 3 numbers of interest to a computer scientist: 1, 0 and infinity.
Anonymous