Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
Alan J. Perlis
One Page Principle: A specification that will not fit on one page of 8.5x11 inch paper cannot be understood.
Mark Ardis
Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.
George S. Patton
We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.
Larry Wall
Process is no substitute for synaptic activity.
Jeff DeLuca
Education is the process of learning more and more about less and less until one knows everything about nothing and is entitled to call oneself 'Doctor'.
Anonymous
God could create the world in six days because he didn't have to make it compatible with the previous version.
Anonymous
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
Alan J. Perlis
C++ : Where friends have access to your private members.
Gavin Russell Baker
Giving up on assembly language was the apple in our Garden of Eden: Languages whose use squanders machine cycles are sinful. The LISP machine now permits LISP programmers to abandon bra and fig-leaf.
Alan J. Perlis