Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Brevity is the soul of wit.
Shakespeare
If a listener nods his head when you're explaining your program, wake him up.
Alan J. Perlis
One who works with their hands is a laborer.
Anonymous
One who works with their hands and their mind is a craftsman.
One who works with their hands, mind and heart is an artist.
The best things are simple, but finding these simple things is not simple.
Anonymous
If the code and the comments disagree, then both are probably wrong.
Anonymous
Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to see it as a soap bubble?
Alan J. Perlis
Deleted code is debugged code.
Jeff Sickel
This is important, and a little hard to understand. English is useful because it's a mess. Since English is a mess, it maps well onto the problem space, which is also a mess, which we call reality. Similarly, Perl was designed to be a mess (though in the nicest of possible ways).
Larry Wall
Only in wealth, there is room for a bad idea.
Jasper van der Meer
The most important computer is the one that rages in our skulls and ever seeks that satisfactory external emulator. The standarization of real computers would be a disaster - and so it probably won't happen.
Alan J. Perlis
It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.
Hofstadter's Law