Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all...
Larry Wall
As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.
Dave Parnas
You can't communicate complexity, only an awareness of it.
Alan J. Perlis
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Leonardo da Vinci
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
Alan J. Perlis
I would love to change the world, but they won't give me the source code.
Anonymous
If you want to confuse your enemies, give them the source code. If you want to really confuse them, give them the documentation.
Anonymous
APL, I believe, can only be learned by writing one-liners–only by seeing in a sense, what you can compress into a line.
Alan J Perlis
Interfaces keep things tidy, but don't accelerate growth: Functions do.
Alan J. Perlis
I finally found a definition for "middleware". "Middleware" is the software nobody wants to pay for.
Chris Stone