Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
One can only display complex information in the mind. Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.
Alan J. Perlis
If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
Alan J. Perlis
Any code of your own that you haven't looked at for six or more months might as well have been written by someone else.
Eagleson's Law
All problems in computer science can be solved with another level of indirection.
David Wheeler
Memory is like an orgasm. It's a lot better if you don't have to fake it.
Seymour Cray on virtual memory
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
The goal is to deliver clean code that works - now.
Kent Beck
Don’t fix bugs later; fix them now.
Steve Maguire
Fight code entropy.
John Carmack
It takes an intelligent person to build something complex; it takes a genius to build something simple.
Anonymous