Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If it doesn't have to work, we can do it real quick.
Watts Humphrey
Any sufficiently well-documented lisp program contains an ML program in its comments.
Anonymous
Make no mistake about it: Computers process numbers - not symbols. We measure our understanding (and control) by the extent to which we can arithmetize an activity.
Alan J. Perlis
When a programming language is created that allows programmers to program in simple English, it will be discovered that programmers cannot speak English.
Anonymous
Make it correct,
Wes Dyer
make it clear,
make it concise,
make it fast.
In that order.
Programming languages are like girlfriends: The new one is better because you are better.
Anonymous
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
Alan J. Perlis
When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.
Pablo Picasso
If architects built houses the way programmers built programs, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization.
Gerald Weinberg
Inside every complex program is a simple program trying to get out.
Anonymous