Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Simplicity - the art of maximizing the amount of work not done - is essential.
Agile Manifesto
The best book on programming for the layman is "Alice in Wonderland"; but that's because it's the best book on anything for the layman.
Alan J. Perlis
Are you quite sure that all those bells and whistles, all those wonderful facilities of your so called powerful programming languages, belong to the solution set rather than the problem set?
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Good enough is neither.
Jim Spivey
Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
Alan J. Perlis
A computer scientist counts to ten: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 ...
Anonymous
Everyone else counts to ten: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
A C program is like a fast dance on a newly waxed dance floor by people carrying razors.
Waldi Ravens
Java. The elegant simplicity of C++. The blazing speed of Smalltalk.
Anonymous
In my experience, one of the most significant problems in software development is assuming. If you assume a method will passed the right parameter value, the method will fail.
Paul M. Duvall
A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
Alan J. Perlis