Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
When a programming language is created that allows programmers to program in simple English, it will be discovered that programmers cannot speak English.
Anonymous
If you can build it, your users can break it.
Anonymous
Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from a rigged demonstration.
Anonymous
In effect, we conjure the spirits of the computer with our spells.
From SICP
Deleted code is debugged code.
Jeff Sickel
Why did the Roman Empire collapse? What is Latin for office automation?
Alan J. Perlis
Giving up on assembly language was the apple in our Garden of Eden: Languages whose use squanders machine cycles are sinful. The LISP machine now permits LISP programmers to abandon bra and fig-leaf.
Alan J. Perlis
Saying that Java is good because it works on all platforms is like saying anal sex is good because it works on all genders.
Anonymous
An idiot with a computer is a faster, better idiot.
Rich Julius
Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
Alan J. Perlis