Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
An adequate bootstrap is a contradiction in terms.
Alan J. Perlis
In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
Alan J. Perlis
Ready, fire, aim: the fast approach to software development.
Anonymous
Ready, aim, aim, aim, aim: the slow approach to software development.
We have the mini and the micro computer. In what semantic niche would the pico computer fall?
Alan J. Perlis
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.
Anonymous
Software Engineering isn't rocket science ... it's harder.
Anonymous
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
Niels Bohr
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If it's original, you'll have to ram it down their throats.
Howard Aiken
Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.
Alan Kay
C++: an octopus made by nailing extra legs onto a dog.
Steve Taylor