Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
In computing, invariants are ephemeral.
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
It's interface, not in your face.
Kai Krause
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
Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first, it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self-evident.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen.
Edward V Berard
Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
Alan J. Perlis
A program without a loop and a structured variable isn't worth writing.
Alan J. Perlis
Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter.
Eric Raymond
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Thomas A. Edison