Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Software is hard.
Donald Knuth
Hardware is the part of a system you can kick. Software is the one you can only curse at.
Anonymous
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Leonardo da Vinci
Software is either testable or detestable.
Anonymous
To understand a program you must become both the machine and the program.
Alan J. Perlis
If we believe in data structures, we must believe in independent (hence simultaneous) processing. For why else would we collect items within a structure? Why do we tolerate languages that give us the one without the other?
Alan J. Perlis
Computation has made the tree flower.
Alan J. Perlis
It is not a language's weakness but its strengths that control the gradient of its change: Alas, a language never escapes its embryonic sac.
Alan J. Perlis
Often it is the means that justify the ends: Goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
Alan J. Perlis
The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
Ludwig Wittgenstein