Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Education is the process of learning more and more about less and less until one knows everything about nothing and is entitled to call oneself 'Doctor'.
Anonymous
We will never run out of things to program as long as there is a single program around.
Alan J. Perlis
Fifty years of programming language research, and we end up with C++ ?
Richard A. O'Keefe
Anyone who considers arithmetic methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin.
John von Neumann
A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing.
Alan J. Perlis
The goal of computation is the emulation of our synthetic abilities, not the understanding of our analytic ones.
Alan J. Perlis
FORTRAN, the infantile disorder, by now nearly 20 years old, is hopelessly inadequate for whatever computer application you have in mind today: it is now too clumsy, too risky, and too expensive to use.
E. W. Dijkstra
An adequate bootstrap is a contradiction in terms.
Alan J. Perlis
An idiot with a computer is a faster, better idiot.
Rich Julius
With all due respect John, I am the head of IT and I have it on good authority. If you type "Google" into Google, you can break the Internet.
Jen, "The IT Crowd"