Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If a program manipulates a large amount of data, it does so in a small number of ways.
Alan J. Perlis
A documented bug is not a bug; it is a feature.
James P. MacLennan
All real programmers know C of course.
Jeff Atwood
Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen.
Edward V Berard
Often it is the means that justify the ends: Goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
Alan J. Perlis
An ideal world is left as an exercise to the reader.
From Paul Graham's "On Lisp"
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that it's all learned.
Bruce Ediger
Why did the Roman Empire collapse? What is Latin for office automation?
Alan J. Perlis
If you've seen one picture of the Mandelbrot Set, you've seen them all.
Bill Karwin
For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
H L Mencken