Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Nothing is more permanent than a temporary solution.
Thomas' First Law
The object-oriented model makes it easy to build up programs by accretion. What this often means, in practice, is that it provides a structured way to write spaghetti code.
Paul Graham
It makes no sense to try to do what we can. We must do what is necessary.
Winston Churchill
It can scarcely be denied that the supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a single datum of experience.
Albert Einstein
Complexity has nothing to do with intelligence, simplicity does.
Larry Bossidy
Beware of the Turing tar-pit in which everything is possible but nothing of interest is easy.
Alan J. Perlis
Java is to JavaScript what Car is to Carpet.
Chris Heilmann
The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
What is the difference between a Turing machine and the modern computer? It's the same as that between Hillary's ascent of Everest and the establishment of a Hilton hotel on its peak.
Alan J. Perlis
Good web applications should look like trifle.
Cal Henderson