Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Multitasking is the art of distracting yourself from two things you’d rather not be doing by doing them simultaneously.
Anonymous
When in doubt, leave it out.
Joshua Bloch
Fight code entropy.
John Carmack
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
Alan J. Perlis
They won't tell you that they don't understand it; they will happily invent their way through the gaps and obscurities.
V.A. Vyssotsky on software programmers and their views on specifications
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked.
John Gall
APL, I believe, can only be learned by writing one-liners–only by seeing in a sense, what you can compress into a line.
Alan J Perlis
I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
Alan J. Perlis
Software is hard.
Donald Knuth