Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The best things are simple, but finding these simple things is not simple.
Anonymous
When all you have is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail.
Anonymous
... what society overwhelmingly asks for is snake oil. Of course, the snake oil has the most impressive names — otherwise you would be selling nothing — like "Structured Analysis and Design", "Software Engineering", "Maturity Models", "Management Information Systems", "Integrated Project Support Environments" "Object Orientation" and "Business Process Re-engineering" (the latter three being known as IPSE, OO and BPR, respectively).
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
Alan J. Perlis
Often it is the means that justify the ends: Goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
Alan J. Perlis
An ideal world is left as an exercise to the reader.
From Paul Graham's "On Lisp"
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MSDN
It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.
Hofstadter's Law
Programmer - an organism that turns coffee into software.
Anonymous
We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.
Larry Wall