Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Organizations which design systems are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations.
Conway's Law
When you want to do something differently from the rest of the world, it's a good idea to look into whether the rest of the world knows something you don't.
Anonymous
When in doubt, leave it out.
Joshua Bloch
Only Half of programming is coding. The other 90% is debugging.
Anonymous
What I cannot build, I do not understand.
Richard Feynman
In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can't.
Alan J. Perlis
A computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things. They are, in short, a perfect match.
Bill Bryson
Software is under a constant tension. Being symbolic it is arbitrarily perfectible; but also it is arbitrarily changeable.
Alan J. Perlis
Java is to JavaScript what Car is to Carpet.
Chris Heilmann
Multitasking is the art of distracting yourself from two things you’d rather not be doing by doing them simultaneously.
Anonymous