Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Over the centuries the Indians developed sign language for communicating phenomena of interest. Programmers from different tribes (FORTRAN, LISP, ALGOL, SNOBOL, etc.) could use one that doesn't require them to carry a blackboard on their ponies.
Alan J. Perlis
If you can imagine a society in which the computer - robot is the only menial, you can imagine anything.
Alan J. Perlis
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Leonardo da Vinci
All programming is an exercise in caching.
Terje Mathisen
UNIX is user friendly. It just picks whom it wants to be friends with.
Anonymous
Never memorize what you can look up in books.
Albert Einstein
If you've seen one picture of the Mandelbrot Set, you've seen them all.
Bill Karwin
The difference between theory and practice is smaller in theory than in practice.
Anonymous
Ready, fire, aim: the fast approach to software development.
Anonymous
Ready, aim, aim, aim, aim: the slow approach to software development.
Structured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.
Alan J. Perlis