Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to see it as a soap bubble?
Alan J. Perlis
Java. The elegant simplicity of C++. The blazing speed of Smalltalk.
Anonymous
From a programmer's point of view, the user is a peripheral that types when you issue a read request.
Peter Williams
When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Why did the Roman Empire collapse? What is Latin for office automation?
Alan J. Perlis
When all you have is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail.
Anonymous
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
E. W. Dijkstra
You start writing code, I'll go see what the customer wants
Anonymous
Change breaks the brittle.
Jan Houtema
A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing.
Alan J. Perlis