Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
FORTRAN, the infantile disorder, by now nearly 20 years old, is hopelessly inadequate for whatever computer application you have in mind today: it is now too clumsy, too risky, and too expensive to use.
E. W. Dijkstra
When you want to do something differently from the rest of the world, it's a good idea to look into whether the rest of the world knows something you don't.
Anonymous
Re graphics: A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
Alan J. Perlis
It makes no sense to try to do what we can. We must do what is necessary.
Winston Churchill
A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any other invention in human history, with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.
Mitch Ratcliffe
Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.
Bill Gates
If you can't explain something to a six-year-old, you really don't understand it yourself.
Albert Einstein
Bringing computers into the home won't change either one, but may revitalize the corner saloon.
Alan J. Perlis
It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than 10 functions on 10 data structures.
Alan J. Perlis
Good design adds value faster than it adds cost.
Thomas C. Gale