Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
I know it doesn't sound like a big effort, but programmers are really, really lazy, and they like to minimize motion. They'd use feeder tubes if the Health Department would let them.
Steve Yegge
Fight code entropy.
John Carmack
If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
Alan J. Perlis
Easy things should be easy and hard things should be possible.
Larry Wall
Programming is difficult. At its core, it is about managing complexity. Computer programs are the most complex things that humans make. Quality is illusive and elusive.
Douglas Crockford
It seems to me you can program with discipline or you can program with bondage and discipline. You can't avoid the discipline either way, but bondage appeals to some people.
Patrick Logan
Code is never finished, only abandoned.
Anonymous
In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they're not.
Anonymous
Systems have sub-systems and sub-systems have sub- systems and so on ad infinitum - which is why we're always starting over.
Alan J. Perlis
We better hurry up and start coding, there are going to be a lot of bugs to fix.
Anonymous