Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
All problems in computer science can be solved with another level of indirection.
David Wheeler
A good system can't have a weak command language.
Alan J. Perlis
The most important computer is the one that rages in our skulls and ever seeks that satisfactory external emulator. The standarization of real computers would be a disaster - and so it probably won't happen.
Alan J. Perlis
I think there's a world market for about five computers.
Thomas J Watson Senior, 1945
Some programmers, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use floating point arithmetic." Now they have 1.999999999997 problems.
Tom Scott
The greatest performance improvement of all is when a system goes from not-working to working.
John Ousterhout
Fast, Cheap, Reliable: Pick any two.
Anonymous
You’ll spend far more time babysitting old technologies than implementing new ones.
Jason Hiner IT Dirty Secrets
The object-oriented model makes it easy to build up programs by accretion. What this often means, in practice, is that it provides a structured way to write spaghetti code.
Paul Graham
If you can imagine a society in which the computer - robot is the only menial, you can imagine anything.
Alan J. Perlis