Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Programming is an unnatural act.
Alan J. Perlis
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
Alan J. Perlis
A computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things. They are, in short, a perfect match.
Bill Bryson
When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
Alan J. Perlis
The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents.
Nathaniel Borenstein
In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
Alan J. Perlis
Within a computer natural language is unnatural.
Alan J. Perlis
I have found that the reason a lot of people are interested in artificial intelligence is the same reason a lot of people are interested in artificial limbs: they are missing one.
David Parnas
Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
Alan J. Perlis
Think twice before you start programming or you will program twice before you start thinking.
Anonymous