Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Making something variable is easy. Controlling duration of constancy is the trick.
Alan J. Perlis
If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.
Cicero
Computation has made the tree flower.
Alan J. Perlis
Purely applicative languages are poorly applicable.
Alan J. Perlis
The structure of software systems tend to reflect the structure of the organization that produce them.
Douglas Crocford
All programmers are optimists.
Frederick Brooks
It is not the computer's fault that Maxwell's equations are not adequate to design the electric motor.
Alan J. Perlis
It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all...
Larry Wall
A well-written program is its own heaven; a poorly-written program is its own hell.
Tao of Programming
If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution.
Robert Sewell