Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
Alan J. Perlis
In a 5 year period we get one superb programming language. Only we can't control when the 5 year period will be.
Alan J. Perlis
All problems in computer science can be solved with another level of indirection.
David Wheeler
Designing software in a team is like writing poetry in a committee meeting.
Joel Spolsky
There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
Alan J. Perlis
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Thomas A. Edison
The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.
Anonymous
Sure, it's overkill. But you can never have too much overkill...
Anonymous
'Goto' is always evil, like in 'goto school' or 'goto work'.
Anonymous
Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.
Donald Knuth