Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Re graphics: A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
Alan J. Perlis
No code is faster than no code.
Anonymous
All parts should go together without forcing. You must remember that the parts you are reassembling were disassembled by you. Therefore, if you can't get them together again, there must be a reason. By all means, do not use a hammer.
IBM Manual, 1925
FORTRAN was the language of choice for the same reason that three-legged races are popular.
Ken Thompson
Within a computer natural language is unnatural.
Alan J. Perlis
This is important, and a little hard to understand. English is useful because it's a mess. Since English is a mess, it maps well onto the problem space, which is also a mess, which we call reality. Similarly, Perl was designed to be a mess (though in the nicest of possible ways).
Larry Wall
Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter.
Eric Raymond
Team debugging: the act of intimidating a PC into doing for two people what it refuses to do for one.
Anonymous
Structured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.
Alan J. Perlis
A program without a loop and a structured variable isn't worth writing.
Alan J. Perlis