Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The goal of computation is the emulation of our synthetic abilities, not the understanding of our analytic ones.
Alan J. Perlis
There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use.
Freeman Dyson
Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.
From SICP
If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?
John Wooden, basketball coach
Hardware is the part of a system you can kick. Software is the one you can only curse at.
Anonymous
If it doesn't have to work, we can do it real quick.
Watts Humphrey
No code is faster than no code.
Anonymous
Simplicity - the art of maximizing the amount of work not done - is essential.
Agile Manifesto
I would love to change the world, but they won't give me the source code.
Anonymous
The first 90% of the code accounts for the first 90% of the development time. The remaining 10% of the code accounts for the other 90% of the development time.
Tom Cargill