Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.
Clark's law
Better train people and risk they leave – than do nothing and risk they stay.
Anonymous
It takes an intelligent person to build something complex; it takes a genius to build something simple.
Anonymous
Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.
Bill Gates
What you’ve described, “The bottleneck in writing code isn’t in the writing of the code, it’s in understanding and conceptualising what needs to be done,” is common to all highly abstract programming languages. Writing Haskell, for example, involves an hour of meditation followed by the emission of a fold expression.
Jonathan Feinberg
If we believe in data structures, we must believe in independent (hence simultaneous) processing. For why else would we collect items within a structure? Why do we tolerate languages that give us the one without the other?
Alan J. Perlis
Lines of code are only worth counting, when time has come to delete them.
Anonymous
I will not be a lemming and follow the crowd over the cliff and into the C.
John Beidler
Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing until it gets there.
Josh Billings
If you can't explain something to a six-year-old, you really don't understand it yourself.
Albert Einstein