Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Perhaps if we wrote programs from childhood on, as adults we'd be able to read them.
Alan J. Perlis
If a program manipulates a large amount of data, it does so in a small number of ways.
Alan J. Perlis
There is nothing quite so permanent as a quick fix.
Anonymous
Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
Alan J. Perlis
The goal of Computer Science is to build something that will last at least until we've finished building it.
Anonymous
Your code is both good and original. Unfortunately the parts that are good are not original, and the parts that are original are not good.
Anonymous
I think there's a world market for about five computers.
Thomas J Watson Senior, 1945
If it doesn't have to work, we can do it real quick.
Watts Humphrey
Giving up on assembly language was the apple in our Garden of Eden: Languages whose use squanders machine cycles are sinful. The LISP machine now permits LISP programmers to abandon bra and fig-leaf.
Alan J. Perlis
Hardware is the part of a system you can kick. Software is the one you can only curse at.
Anonymous