Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Good design adds value faster than it adds cost.
Thomas C. Gale
The idea that I can be presented with a problem, set out to logically solve it with the tools at hand, and wind up with a program that could not be legally used because someone else followed the same logical steps some years ago and filed for a patent on it is horrifying.
John Carmack on software patents
There are 10 types of people. Those who can read ternary, those who can't and those who mistake it for binary.
Anonymous
The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.
Oswald Chambers
Some programmers try to reach higher by standing on other programmers' shoulders. Other programmers try to reach higher by standing on other programmers' toes.
Anonymous
The Floppy Disk Icon means "save" for a whole generation of people who have never seen one.
Scott Hanselman
It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
Alan J. Perlis
Writing in C or C++ is like running a chain saw with all the safety guards removed.
Bob Gray
When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
Alan J. Perlis
In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
Alan J. Perlis