Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If we'd asked the customers what they wanted, they would have said "faster horses".
Henry Ford
When we write programs that "learn", it turns out that we do and they don't.
Alan J. Perlis
If C didn't exist, we would be programming in OBOL, PASAL or BASI
Anonymous
The cybernetic exchange between man, computer and algorithm is like a game of musical chairs: The frantic search for balance always leaves one of the three standing ill at ease.
Alan J. Perlis
There is no programming language, no matter how structured, that will prevent programmers from making bad programs.
Larry Flon
In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word "frustration".
Alan J. Perlis
We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat's next-to-last theorem.
Alan J. Perlis
There will always be things we wish to say in our programs that in all known languages can only be said poorly.
Alan J. Perlis
It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all...
Larry Wall
I finally found a definition for "middleware". "Middleware" is the software nobody wants to pay for.
Chris Stone