Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
To understand a program you must become both the machine and the program.
Alan J. Perlis
A startup now can be just a pair of 22 year old guys. A company like that can move much more easily than one with 10 people, half of whom have kids.
Paul Graham
Editing is a rewording activity.
Alan J. Perlis
Computation has made the tree flower.
Alan J. Perlis
If our customers wanted a product that worked that way, tell them to purchase a product that works that way.
Anonymous
In order to understand recursion, one must first understand recursion.
Anonymous
If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution.
Robert Sewell
There is no IRL, only AFK
Anonymous
Owning a computer without programming is like having a kitchen and using only the microwave oven.
Charles Petzold
The object-oriented model makes it easy to build up programs by accretion. What this often means, in practice, is that it provides a structured way to write spaghetti code.
Paul Graham