Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Interfaces keep things tidy, but don't accelerate growth: Functions do.
Alan J. Perlis
Fast, Cheap, Reliable: Pick any two.
Anonymous
The debate rages on: is PL/I Bachtrian or Dromedary?
Alan J. Perlis
It should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer would ever consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure. Basic professional ethics would instead require him to write a DestroyCity procedure, to which Baghdad could be given as a parameter.
Nathaniel S Borenstein
Think of all the psychic energy expended in seeking a fundamental distinction between "algorithm" and "program".
Alan J. Perlis
If you lie to the compiler, it will get its revenge.
Henry Spencere
Giving up on assembly language was the apple in our Garden of Eden: Languages whose use squanders machine cycles are sinful. The LISP machine now permits LISP programmers to abandon bra and fig-leaf.
Alan J. Perlis
For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
H L Mencken
If it is worth doing once, it is worth automating...
Anonymous
It takes an intelligent person to build something complex; it takes a genius to build something simple.
Anonymous