Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If two people write exactly the same program, each should be put into microcode and then they certainly won't be the same.
Alan J. Perlis
Perspective is worth 80 I.Q. points
Alan Kay
The bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned. Many software tasks have this characteristic because of the sequential nature of debugging.
Fred Brooks
Prolonged contact with the computer turns mathematicians into clerks and vice versa.
Alan J. Perlis
If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
Alan J. Perlis
C++ is an horrible language. Even if the choice of C were to do *nothing* but keep the C++ programmers out, that in itself would be a huge reason to use C.
Linus Torvalds
If you've seen one picture of the Mandelbrot Set, you've seen them all.
Bill Karwin
In programming, everything we do is a special case of something more general -- and often we know it too quickly.
Alan J. Perlis
The future will be like the past, because in the past the future was like the past.
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C++ has its place in the history of programming languages. Just as Caligula has his place in the history of the Roman Empire.
Robert Firth