Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If we'd asked the customers what they wanted, they would have said "faster horses".
Henry Ford
In order to understand recursion, one must first understand recursion.
Anonymous
In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
Alan J. Perlis
Java is like a variant of the game of Tetris in which none of the pieces can fill gaps created by the other pieces, so all you can do is pile them up endlessly.
Steve Yegge
The goal of computation is the emulation of our synthetic abilities, not the understanding of our analytic ones.
Alan J. Perlis
A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
Alan J. Perlis
If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough.
Alan Kay
There are only two hard problems in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.
Phil Karlton
It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.
Alan J. Perlis
Tell me what you need and I'll tell you how to get along without it.
Anonymous