Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.
Alan Kay
In software, the most beautiful code, the most beautiful functions, and the most beautiful programs are sometimes not there at all.
Jon Bentley
Once you've dressed and before you leave the house, look in the mirror and take at least one thing off.
Coco Chanel
Any code of your own that you haven't looked at for six or more months might as well have been written by someone else.
Eagleson's Law
C is to programming as Latin is to literature.
Anonymous
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
Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases.
Anonymous
So many good ideas are never heard from again once they embark in a voyage on the semantic gulf.
Alan J. Perlis
Elegance is not optional.
Richard A. O'Keefe (from The Craft of Prolog)
You can stand on the shoulders of giants OR a big enough pile of dwarfs, works either way.
Anonymous