Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.
George S. Patton
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
Alan J. Perlis
Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them.
Alan J. Perlis
...basically, avoid comments. If your code needs a comment to be understood, it would be better to rewrite it so it's easier to understand.
Rob Pike
In the good old days physicists repeated each other's experiments, just to be sure. Today they stick to FORTRAN, so that they can share each other's programs, bugs included.
Edsger W. Dijkstra
In seeking the unattainable, simplicity only gets in the way.
Alan J. Perlis
Saying that Java is good because it works on all platforms is like saying anal sex is good because it works on all genders.
Anonymous
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that it's all learned.
Bruce Ediger
Manually managing blocks of memory in C is like juggling bars of soap in a prison shower: It's all fun and games until you forget about one of them.
Anonymous
If you can't explain something to a six-year-old, you really don't understand it yourself.
Albert Einstein
As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.
Dave Parnas