Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Recursion is the root of computation since it trades description for time.
Alan J. Perlis
Tell me what you need and I'll tell you how to get along without it.
Anonymous
As Will Rogers would have said, "There is no such thing as a free variable."
Alan J. Perlis
Sometimes I think the only universal in the computing field is the fetch-execute cycle.
Alan J. Perlis
Are you quite sure that all those bells and whistles, all those wonderful facilities of your so called powerful programming languages, belong to the solution set rather than the problem set?
Edsger W. Dijkstra
God is Real, unless declared Integer.
Anonymous
If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough.
Alan Kay
Question: How does a large software project get to be one year late? Answer: One day at a time!
Fred Brooks
A program without a loop and a structured variable isn't worth writing.
Alan J. Perlis
The evolution of languages: FORTRAN is a non-typed language. C is a weakly typed language. Ada is a strongly typed language. C++ is a strongly hyped language.
Ron Sercely