Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
A C program is like a fast dance on a newly waxed dance floor by people carrying razors.
Waldi Ravens
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Leonardo da Vinci
Any sufficiently well-documented lisp program contains an ML program in its comments.
Anonymous
Simplicity - the art of maximizing the amount of work not done - is essential.
Agile Manifesto
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
Rich Cook
Sure, it's overkill. But you can never have too much overkill...
Anonymous
Profanity is the one language all programmers know best.
Anonymous
A logician trying to explain logic to a programmer is like a cat trying to explain to a fish what it's like to get wet.
Anonymous
Whereas Europeans generally pronounce my name the right way ('Nick-louse Veert'), Americans invariably mangle it into 'Nickel's Worth.' This is to say that Europeans call me by name, but Americans call me by value.
Niklaus Wirth
Anything that can go wrong will go wrong, anything that can't go wrong will go wrong anyway.
Anonymous