Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
It is not the computer's fault that Maxwell's equations are not adequate to design the electric motor.
Alan J. Perlis
Sometimes, the elegant implementation is just a function. Not a method. Not a class. Not a framework. Just a function.
John Carmack
I hate code, and I want as little of it in our product as possible.
Jack Diederich
Complexity has nothing to do with intelligence, simplicity does.
Larry Bossidy
Documentation is like sex. When it's good, it's fantastic. When it's bad, it's still better than nothing.
Anonymous
I'm not a great programmer; I'm just a good programmer with great habits.
Kent Beck
A programmer started to cuss
Anonymous
Because getting to sleep was a fuss
As he lay there in bed
Looping 'round in his head
was: while(!asleep()) sheep++;
Computers don't introduce order anywhere as much as they expose opportunities.
Alan J. Perlis
Interfaces keep things tidy, but don't accelerate growth: Functions do.
Alan J. Perlis
A startup now can be just a pair of 22 year old guys. A company like that can move much more easily than one with 10 people, half of whom have kids.
Paul Graham