Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Lines of code are only worth counting, when time has come to delete them.
Anonymous
In programming, everything we do is a special case of something more general -- and often we know it too quickly.
Alan J. Perlis
We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.
Larry Wall
There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult.
C.A.R. Hoare.
if you are a programmer working in 2003 and you don't know the basics of characters, character sets, encodings, and Unicode, and I catch you, I'm going to punish you by making you peel onions for 6 months in a submarine.
Joel Spolsky
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
I’ve finally learned what ‘upward compatible’ means. It means we get to keep all our old mistakes.
Dennie van Tassel
It takes an intelligent person to build something complex; it takes a genius to build something simple.
Anonymous
I finally found a definition for "middleware". "Middleware" is the software nobody wants to pay for.
Chris Stone
Organizations which design systems are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations.
Conway's Law