Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Simplicity is hard to build, easy to use, and hard to charge for. Complexity is easy to build, hard to use, and easy to charge for.
Chris Sacca
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
There are only two hard problems in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.
Phil Karlton
Compatibility means deliberately repeating other people's mistakes.
Anonymous
Motto for a research laboratory: What we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
Alan J. Perlis
The best thing about a boolean is even if you are wrong, you are only off by a bit.
Anonymous
If you require information, do not free memory containing the information.
MSDN
You can stand on the shoulders of giants OR a big enough pile of dwarfs, works either way.
Anonymous
Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.
Brian Kernighan
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
Isaac Asimov