Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Elegance is not optional.
Richard A. O'Keefe (from The Craft of Prolog)
Human beings are not accustomed to being perfect, and few areas of human activity demand it. Adjusting to the requirement for perfection is, I think, the most difficult part of learning to program.
Anonymous
Brevity is the soul of wit.
Shakespeare
One does not learn computing by using a hand calculator, but one can forget arithmetic.
Alan J. Perlis
A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
Alan J. Perlis
If a program manipulates a large amount of data, it does so in a small number of ways.
Alan J. Perlis
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked.
John Gall
Perl - The only language that looks the same before and after RSA encryption.
Keith Bostic
Good web applications should look like trifle.
Cal Henderson
Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.
George S. Patton