Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The string is a stark data structure and everywhere it is passed there is much duplication of process. It is a perfect vehicle for hiding information.
Alan J. Perlis
My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going on to be scared.
P. J. Plauger
Are you quite sure that all those bells and whistles, all those wonderful facilities of your so called powerful programming languages, belong to the solution set rather than the problem set?
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
Alan J. Perlis
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Antoine de Saint Exupéry
There is not now, nor has there ever been, nor will there ever be, any programming language in which it is the least bit difficult to write bad code.
Anonymous
Like punning, programming is a play on words.
Alan J. Perlis
Only in wealth, there is room for a bad idea.
Jasper van der Meer
Organizations which design systems are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations.
Conway's Law
A fool with a tool is still a fool.
Anonymous