Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
First, solve the problem. Then, write the code.
John Johnson
Code never lies, comments sometimes do.
Ron Jeffries
The bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned. Many software tasks have this characteristic because of the sequential nature of debugging.
Fred Brooks
To understand a program you must become both the machine and the program.
Alan J. Perlis
The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
What happens in the mind of a fine artist is nothing different from that going on in the mind of an expert coder. Both see and thrive in the quintessential nature of patterns.
Lawrence Mucheka
For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
H L Mencken
Simplicity - the art of maximizing the amount of work not done - is essential.
Agile Manifesto
Software is under a constant tension. Being symbolic it is arbitrarily perfectible; but also it is arbitrarily changeable.
Alan J. Perlis
Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.
Andy Rooney