Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Everyone can be taught to sculpt: Michelangelo would have had to be taught not to. So it is with great programmers.
Alan J. Perlis
Elegance is not optional.
Richard A. O'Keefe (from The Craft of Prolog)
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
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
Rich Cook
An idiot with a computer is a faster, better idiot.
Rich Julius
The first 90% of the code accounts for the first 90% of the development time. The remaining 10% of the code accounts for the other 90% of the development time.
Tom Cargill
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
Pablo Picasso
Only in wealth, there is room for a bad idea.
Jasper van der Meer
Though the Chinese should adore APL, it's FORTRAN they put their money on.
Alan J. Perlis
Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.
Murphy's Law