Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Within a computer natural language is unnatural.
Alan J. Perlis
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
There are only two industries that refer to their customers as users: the computer industry and the drug trade.
Edward Tufte
The string is a stark data structure and everywhere it is passed there is much duplication of process. It is a perfect vehicle for hiding information.
Alan J. Perlis
Easy things should be easy and hard things should be possible.
Larry Wall
UNIX is user friendly. It just picks whom it wants to be friends with.
Anonymous
C++: an octopus made by nailing extra legs onto a dog.
Steve Taylor
Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen.
Edward V Berard
A good programmer looks both ways before crossing a one-way street.
Anonymous
There's a fine line between being on the leading edge and being in the lunatic fringe.
Frank Armstrong