Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late."
Seymour Cray
All problems in computer science can be solved with another level of indirection.
David Wheeler
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
Alan J. Perlis
Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.
Jamie Zawinski
In the good old days physicists repeated each other's experiments, just to be sure. Today they stick to FORTRAN, so that they can share each other's programs, bugs included.
Edsger W. Dijkstra
The eleventh commandment was "Thou Shalt Compute" or "Thou Shalt Not Compute" - I forget which.
Alan J. Perlis
The function of good software is to make the complex appear to be simple.
Grady Booch
Sure, it's overkill. But you can never have too much overkill...
Anonymous
Java is C++ without the guns, knives, and clubs.
James Gosling
With regard to adding more programmers to get a project done faster - Nine people can't make a baby in a month.
Fred Brooks