Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Organizations which design systems are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations.
Conway's Law
If you can't explain something to a six-year-old, you really don't understand it yourself.
Albert Einstein
Good enough is neither.
Jim Spivey
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
Sometimes, the elegant implementation is just a function. Not a method. Not a class. Not a framework. Just a function.
John Carmack
On the 7th day ... God began debugging.
Anonymous
You think you know when you can learn, are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
Alan J. Perlis
Around computers it is difficult to find the correct unit of time to measure progress. Some cathedrals took a century to complete. Can you imagine the grandeur and scope of a program that would take as long?
Alan J. Perlis
Brevity is the soul of wit.
Shakespeare
We're even wrong about which mistakes we're making.
Carl Winfeld