Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked.
John Gall
The Floppy Disk Icon means "save" for a whole generation of people who have never seen one.
Scott Hanselman
We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.
Larry Wall
Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.
Alan J. Perlis
The more bizarre the behavior, the more stupid the mistake.
Ed's Law of Debugging
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
When I have a specific goal in mind and a complicated piece of code to write, I spend my time making it happen rather than telling myself stories about it.
Steve Yegge
Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches: Banality soothes our nerves.
Alan J. Perlis
In order to understand recursion, one must first understand recursion.
Anonymous
Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.
Alan Kay