Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Around computers it is difficult to find the correct unit of time to measure progress. Some cathedrals took a century to complete. Can you imagine the grandeur and scope of a program that would take as long?
Alan J. Perlis
An adequate bootstrap is a contradiction in terms.
Alan J. Perlis
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked.
John Gall
Java is a DSL to transform big Xml documents into long exception stack traces.
Scott Bellware
The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late."
Seymour Cray
When we understand knowledge-based systems, it will be as before -- except our fingertips will have been singed.
Alan J. Perlis
Any sufficiently well-documented lisp program contains an ML program in its comments.
Anonymous
* No technique works if it isn't used. * Ethics change with technology. * "F × S = k" the product of freedom and security is a constant.
Niven's laws
I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone.
Bjarne Stroustrup
A program without a loop and a structured variable isn't worth writing.
Alan J. Perlis