Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The function of good software is to make the complex appear to be simple.
Grady Booch
What I cannot build, I do not understand.
Richard Feynman
In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can't.
Alan J. Perlis
The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.
Anonymous
The reason we plan ahead is so that we don't have to do anything right now.
Anonymous
C trades a slap on the wrist at compile time for a knife in the back at run time.
Anonymous
Yes, sometimes Perl looks like line noise to the uninitiated, but to the seasoned Perl programmer, it looks like checksummed line noise with a mission in life.
Randal Schwartz
People who think, "Oh this is a one-off," need to be offed, or perhaps politely removed from the project.
George Neville-Neil
What is the difference between a Turing machine and the modern computer? It's the same as that between Hillary's ascent of Everest and the establishment of a Hilton hotel on its peak.
Alan J. Perlis
It's difficult to extract sense from strings, but they're the only communication coin we can count on.
Alan J. Perlis