Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked.
John Gall
There is nothing quite so permanent as a quick fix.
Anonymous
Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction: One, it's completely impossible. Two, it's possible, but it's not worth doing. Three, I said it was a good idea all along.
Arthur C. Clarke
In the long run every program becomes rococo - then rubble.
Alan J. Perlis
We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat's next-to-last theorem.
Alan J. Perlis
Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
Alan Kay
If you give someone a program, you will frustrate them for a day; if you teach them how to program, you will frustrate them for a lifetime.
Anonymous
Java is C++ without the guns, knives, and clubs.
James Gosling
Documentation is like sex. When it's good, it's fantastic. When it's bad, it's still better than nothing.
Anonymous
A computer scientist counts to ten: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 ...
Anonymous
Everyone else counts to ten: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5