Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The computer reminds one of Lon Chaney -- it is the machine of a thousand faces.
Alan J. Perlis
When a programming language is created that allows programmers to program in simple English, it will be discovered that programmers cannot speak English.
Anonymous
You have to "solve" the problem once in order to clearly define it and then solve it again to create a solution that works.
Anonymous
They have computers, and they may have other weapons of mass destruction.
Janet Reno
'Goto' is always evil, like in 'goto school' or 'goto work'.
Anonymous
Computers don't introduce order anywhere as much as they expose opportunities.
Alan J. Perlis
Documentation is like sex. When it's good, it's fantastic. When it's bad, it's still better than nothing.
Anonymous
Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.
Alan Kay
The string is a stark data structure and everywhere it is passed there is much duplication of process. It is a perfect vehicle for hiding information.
Alan J. Perlis
Code is everything I thought poetry was, back when we were in school. Clean, expressive, urgent, all-encompassing. Fourteen lines can open up to fill the available universe.
Richard Powers