Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
Alan J. Perlis
Vi is a subset of evil.
Anonymous
All programmers are optimists.
Frederick Brooks
Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from a rigged demonstration.
Anonymous
God did not create the world in seven days; for six days he screwed around and then pulled an all-nighter.
Anonymous
Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first, it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self-evident.
Arthur Schopenhauer
For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
H L Mencken
When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
Alan J. Perlis
Get into a rut early: Do the same process the same way. Accumulate idioms. Standardize. The only difference(!) between Shakespeare and you was the size of his idiom list - not the size of his vocabulary.
Alan J. Perlis
Sometimes I think the only universal in the computing field is the fetch-execute cycle.
Alan J. Perlis