Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.
Bjarne Stroustrup
Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
Alan J. Perlis
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
Isaac Asimov
It is not a language's weakness but its strengths that control the gradient of its change: Alas, a language never escapes its embryonic sac.
Alan J. Perlis
There is no programming language, no matter how structured, that will prevent programmers from making bad programs.
Larry Flon
One can only display complex information in the mind. Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.
Alan J. Perlis
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked.
John Gall
In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word "frustration".
Alan J. Perlis
Programming is difficult. At its core, it is about managing complexity. Computer programs are the most complex things that humans make. Quality is illusive and elusive.
Douglas Crockford
There is no IRL, only AFK
Anonymous