Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
E. W. Dijkstra
It is not a language's weakness but its strengths that control the gradient of its change: Alas, a language never escapes its embryonic sac.
Alan J. Perlis
The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
Harlan Ellison
The use of a program to prove the 4-color theorem will not change mathematics - it merely demonstrates that the theorem, a challenge for a century, is probably not important to mathematics.
Alan J. Perlis
[Perl] combines all the worst aspects of C and Lisp: a billion different sublanguages in one monolithic executable. It combines the power of C with the readability of PostScript.
Jamie Zawinski
In effect, we conjure the spirits of the computer with our spells.
From SICP
Never underestimate the disparity between developer excitement and user apathy.
Anonymous
It is easier to optimize correct code than to correct optimized code.
Anonymous
Good design adds value faster than it adds cost.
Thomas C. Gale
Going from programming in Pascal to programming in C, is like learning to write in Morse code.
J.P. Candusso