Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The structure of software systems tend to reflect the structure of the organization that produce them.
Douglas Crocford
Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
Alan J. Perlis
A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing.
Alan J. Perlis
A logician trying to explain logic to a programmer is like a cat trying to explain to a fish what it's like to get wet.
Anonymous
I (...) am rarely happier than when spending an entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that would otherwise take me a good ten seconds to do by hand.
Douglas Adams
Though a program be but three lines long, someday it will have to be maintained.
Tao Of Programming
When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
Alan J. Perlis
Human beings are not accustomed to being perfect, and few areas of human activity demand it. Adjusting to the requirement for perfection is, I think, the most difficult part of learning to program.
Anonymous
Anyone who has a wife and small kids knows that programming belongs to the easy things in life.
Anonymous
Use four digits. A new millenium is coming.
Jon Bentley (1976)