Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
You start writing code, I'll go see what the customer wants
Anonymous
How do we convince people that in programming simplicity and clarity —in short: what mathematicians call "elegance"— are not a dispensable luxury, but a crucial matter that decides between success and failure?
Edsger W. Dijkstra
I think there's a world market for about five computers.
Thomas J Watson Senior, 1945
Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
Alan J. Perlis
When it comes to code it never pays to rush.
Marick's Law
Testing like the TSA.
David Heinemeier Hansson on testing too much
Programmers usually have good reasons for making bad decisions.
Anonymous
Complexity has nothing to do with intelligence, simplicity does.
Larry Bossidy
Team debugging: the act of intimidating a PC into doing for two people what it refuses to do for one.
Anonymous
The best code is no code at all.
Anonymous