Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
One can only display complex information in the mind. Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.
Alan J. Perlis
The function of good software is to make the complex appear to be simple.
Grady Booch
Sex is fun, but it probably doesn't solve all your problems.
Larry Wall
A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any other invention in human history, with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.
Mitch Ratcliffe
Organizations which design systems are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations.
Conway's Law
In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they're not.
Anonymous
Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.
Bill Gates
Weeks of coding can save you hours of planning.
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
Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.
From SICP