Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Talk is cheap, show me the code!
Linus Torvalds
Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
Alan J. Perlis
Before software should be reusable, it should be usable.
Ralph Johnson
Arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
Alan Kay
To understand a program you must become both the machine and the program.
Alan J. Perlis
I have found that the reason a lot of people are interested in artificial intelligence is the same reason a lot of people are interested in artificial limbs: they are missing one.
David Parnas
One does not learn computing by using a hand calculator, but one can forget arithmetic.
Alan J. Perlis
Software isn't about methodologies, languages, or even operating systems. It is about working applications.
Christopher Baus
Most people find the concept of programming obvious, but the doing impossible.
Alan J. Perlis
Software is hard.
Donald Knuth