Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Good judgement is the result of experience ... Experience is the result of bad judgement.
Fred Brooks
Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
Alan J. Perlis
An ideal world is left as an exercise to the reader.
From Paul Graham's "On Lisp"
My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going on to be scared.
P. J. Plauger
Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first, it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self-evident.
Arthur Schopenhauer
I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone.
Bjarne Stroustrup
Organizations which design systems are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations.
Conway's Law
The Internet? Is that thing still around?
Homer Simpson
Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.
From SICP
I hate code, and I want as little of it in our product as possible.
Jack Diederich