Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
One Page Principle: A specification that will not fit on one page of 8.5x11 inch paper cannot be understood.
Mark Ardis
KISS - Keep It Simple Stupid
Anonymous
It’s hardware that makes a machine fast. It’s software that makes a fast machine slow.
Craig Bruce
Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to see it as a soap bubble?
Alan J. Perlis
God could create the world in six days because he didn't have to make it compatible with the previous version.
Anonymous
Optimization hinders evolution.
Alan J. Perlis
You're never done, you just run out of time.
Anonymous
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'
Isaac Asimov
The best writing is rewriting.
E. B. White
Never memorize what you can look up in books.
Albert Einstein