Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The structure of software systems tend to reflect the structure of the organization that produce them.
Douglas Crocford
Anyone who has a wife and small kids knows that programming belongs to the easy things in life.
Anonymous
It should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer would ever consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure. Basic professional ethics would instead require him to write a DestroyCity procedure, to which Baghdad could be given as a parameter.
Nathaniel S Borenstein
Sure, it's overkill. But you can never have too much overkill...
Anonymous
The reason we plan ahead is so that we don't have to do anything right now.
Anonymous
Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
Alan J. Perlis
The Floppy Disk Icon means "save" for a whole generation of people who have never seen one.
Scott Hanselman
Programming languages are like girlfriends: The new one is better because you are better.
Anonymous
It takes an intelligent person to build something complex; it takes a genius to build something simple.
Anonymous
Easy things should be easy and hard things should be possible.
Larry Wall