Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.
Alan J. Perlis
It is often easier to not do something dumb than it is to do something smart.
Anonymous
Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls must dive down below.
John Dryden
A good programmer looks both ways before crossing a one-way street.
Anonymous
It's OK to figure out murder mysteries, but you shouldn't need to figure out code. You should be able to read it.
Steve McConnell
Systems have sub-systems and sub-systems have sub- systems and so on ad infinitum - which is why we're always starting over.
Alan J. Perlis
Any problem in computer science can be solved with another layer of indirection. But that usually will create another problem.
David Wheeler
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
Alan J. Perlis
As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought.
Maurice Wilkes
C++ is an horrible language. Even if the choice of C were to do *nothing* but keep the C++ programmers out, that in itself would be a huge reason to use C.
Linus Torvalds