Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Change breaks the brittle.
Jan Houtema
Python's syntax succeeds in combining the mistakes of Lisp and Fortran. I do not construe that as progress.
Larry Wall
Why did the Roman Empire collapse? What is Latin for office automation?
Alan J. Perlis
If a listener nods his head when you're explaining your program, wake him up.
Alan J. Perlis
We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat's next-to-last theorem.
Alan J. Perlis
Computers are getting smarter all the time. Scientists tell us that soon they will be able to talk to us. (And by 'they', I mean 'computers'. I doubt scientists will ever be able to talk to us.)
Dave Barry
Selecting a project due date before the requirements are properly gathered is like selecting which corner you want to paint yourself into, while simultaneously negating the doorway as a viable option.
Chris Ames
You're never done, you just run out of time.
Anonymous
One can't proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
Alan J. Perlis
Interfaces keep things tidy, but don't accelerate growth: Functions do.
Alan J. Perlis