Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program. What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail and learning to be self-critical?
Alan J. Perlis
j++; // increment j
Anonymous
The function of good software is to make the complex appear to be simple.
Grady Booch
The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.
Oswald Chambers
Simplicity - the art of maximizing the amount of work not done - is essential.
Agile Manifesto
Software Engineering isn't rocket science ... it's harder.
Anonymous
Simplicity is hard to build, easy to use, and hard to charge for. Complexity is easy to build, hard to use, and easy to charge for.
Chris Sacca
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
Vincent van Gogh
Purely applicative languages are poorly applicable.
Alan J. Perlis
Whenever two programmers meet to criticize their programs, both are silent.
Alan J. Perlis