Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Good architecture is necessary to give programs enough structure to be able to grow large without collapsing into a puddle of confusion.
Douglas Crockford
Though a program be but three lines long, someday it will have to be maintained.
Tao Of Programming
Designing software in a team is like writing poetry in a committee meeting.
Joel Spolsky
Ever spend a little time reading comp.lang.c++ ? That's really the best place to learn about the number of C++ users looking for a better language.
R. William Beckwith
An adequate bootstrap is a contradiction in terms.
Alan J. Perlis
Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
Alan Kay
There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
Alan J. Perlis
Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.
Albert Einstein
If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
Hal Abelson
The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents.
Nathaniel Borenstein