Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word "frustration".
Alan J. Perlis
Inside every complex program is a simple program trying to get out.
Anonymous
Team debugging: the act of intimidating a PC into doing for two people what it refuses to do for one.
Anonymous
The greatest performance improvement of all is when a system goes from not-working to working.
John Ousterhout
If we'd asked the customers what they wanted, they would have said "faster horses".
Henry Ford
If you've seen one picture of the Mandelbrot Set, you've seen them all.
Bill Karwin
One Page Principle: A specification that will not fit on one page of 8.5x11 inch paper cannot be understood.
Mark Ardis
One can't proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
Alan J. Perlis
If you can't explain something to a six-year-old, you really don't understand it yourself.
Albert Einstein
Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written, and another for which it wasn't.
Alan J. Perlis