Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Use four digits. A new millenium is coming.
Jon Bentley (1976)
We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat's next-to-last theorem.
Alan J. Perlis
Every program is a part of some other program and rarely fits.
Alan J. Perlis
The cheapest, fastest, and most reliable components are those that aren't there.
Gordon Bell
One does not learn computing by using a hand calculator, but one can forget arithmetic.
Alan J. Perlis
Better train people and risk they leave – than do nothing and risk they stay.
Anonymous
Good web applications should look like trifle.
Cal Henderson
Sometimes I think the only universal in the computing field is the fetch-execute cycle.
Alan J. Perlis
j++; // increment j
Anonymous
Good enough is neither.
Jim Spivey