Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can't.
Alan J. Perlis
Structured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.
Alan J. Perlis
The time machine's software will have a recursive main method.
Anonymous
If we'd asked the customers what they wanted, they would have said "faster horses".
Henry Ford
All programming is an exercise in caching.
Terje Mathisen
As soon as you agree on the number of spaces for indentation, no-one argues for tabs.
Alvar Lumberg
Selecting a project due date before the requirements are properly gathered is like selecting which corner you want to paint yourself into, while simultaneously negating the doorway as a viable option.
Chris Ames
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
You can stand on the shoulders of giants OR a big enough pile of dwarfs, works either way.
Anonymous
Software is under a constant tension. Being symbolic it is arbitrarily perfectible; but also it is arbitrarily changeable.
Alan J. Perlis