Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Brevity is the soul of wit.
Shakespeare
Only in wealth, there is room for a bad idea.
Jasper van der Meer
Deleted code is debugged code.
Jeff Sickel
You have to "solve" the problem once in order to clearly define it and then solve it again to create a solution that works.
Anonymous
Good architecture is necessary to give programs enough structure to be able to grow large without collapsing into a puddle of confusion.
Douglas Crockford
Wherever there is modularity there is the potential for misunderstanding: Hiding information implies a need to check communication.
Alan J. Perlis
Re graphics: A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
Alan J. Perlis
First, solve the problem. Then, write the code.
John Johnson
Never underestimate the disparity between developer excitement and user apathy.
Anonymous
Good programmers learn more from "That's not what I expected!" than from getting it right the first time.
Anonymous
Simplicity is hard to build, easy to use, and hard to charge for. Complexity is easy to build, hard to use, and easy to charge for.
Chris Sacca