Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
We will never run out of things to program as long as there is a single program around.
Alan J. Perlis
Simplicity - the art of maximizing the amount of work not done - is essential.
Agile Manifesto
Programming can be fun, so can cryptography; however they should not be combined.
Kreitzberg and Shneiderman
Motto for a research laboratory: What we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
Alan J. Perlis
Don't worry if it doesn't work right. If everything did, you'd be out of a job.
Mosher's Law of Software Engineering
It's difficult to extract sense from strings, but they're the only communication coin we can count on.
Alan J. Perlis
The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late."
Seymour Cray
If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
Alan J. Perlis
I think there's a world market for about five computers.
Thomas J Watson Senior, 1945
In essence, let the market design the product.
Paul Graham