Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Complexity has nothing to do with intelligence, simplicity does.
Larry Bossidy
Organizations which design systems are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations.
Conway's Law
When you want to do something differently from the rest of the world, it's a good idea to look into whether the rest of the world knows something you don't.
Anonymous
Are you quite sure that all those bells and whistles, all those wonderful facilities of your so called powerful programming languages, belong to the solution set rather than the problem set?
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Pasting code from the Internet into production code is like chewing gum found in the street.
Anonymous
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
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
Vincent van Gogh
I hate code, and I want as little of it in our product as possible.
Jack Diederich
Software is either testable or detestable.
Anonymous
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
Hanlon's Razor