Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The greatest performance improvement of all is when a system goes from not-working to working.
John Ousterhout
The latest new features in C++ are designed to fix the previously new features in C++.
David Jameson
Tell me what you need and I'll tell you how to get along without it.
Anonymous
A computer scientist counts to ten: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 ...
Anonymous
Everyone else counts to ten: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
Alan J. Perlis
Prolonged contact with the computer turns mathematicians into clerks and vice versa.
Alan J. Perlis
It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.
Hofstadter's Law
Everyone can be taught to sculpt: Michelangelo would have had to be taught not to. So it is with great programmers.
Alan J. Perlis
If you can imagine a society in which the computer - robot is the only menial, you can imagine anything.
Alan J. Perlis
In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
Alan J. Perlis