Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
In the long run every program becomes rococo - then rubble.
Alan J. Perlis
FORTRAN, the infantile disorder, by now nearly 20 years old, is hopelessly inadequate for whatever computer application you have in mind today: it is now too clumsy, too risky, and too expensive to use.
E. W. Dijkstra
Simplicity is hard to build, easy to use, and hard to charge for. Complexity is easy to build, hard to use, and easy to charge for.
Chris Sacca
If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough.
Alan Kay
Computation has made the tree flower.
Alan J. Perlis
If at first you don't succeed, try/catch, try/catch again.
Anonymous
It is not the computer's fault that Maxwell's equations are not adequate to design the electric motor.
Alan J. Perlis
There are only 3 numbers of interest to a computer scientist: 1, 0 and infinity.
Anonymous
80 percent of my problems are simple logic errors. 80 percent of the remaining problems are pointer errors. The remaining problems are hard.
Mark Donner, IBM Watson Research Center
... one of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs.
Robert Firth