Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
In seeking the unattainable, simplicity only gets in the way.
Alan J. Perlis
Software is hard.
Donald Knuth
Weeks of coding can save you hours of planning.
Anonymous
Remember, a great way to avoid broken code is to have less of it. The code that you never write will work forever.
Russ Olsen
Deleted code is debugged code.
Jeff Sickel
Never underestimate the disparity between developer excitement and user apathy.
Anonymous
Fight code entropy.
John Carmack
Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to see it as a soap bubble?
Alan J. Perlis
Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
Alan J. Perlis
Are you quite sure that all those bells and whistles, all those wonderful facilities of your so called powerful programming languages, belong to the solution set rather than the problem set?
Edsger W. Dijkstra