Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Shipping is a feature.
Richard Campbell
Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration.
Stan Kelly-Bootle
C++ is more of a rube-goldberg type thing full of high-voltages, large chain-driven gears, sharp edges, exploding widgets, and spots to get your fingers crushed. And because of it's complexity many (if not most) of it's users don't know how it works, and can't tell ahead of time what's going to cause them to loose an arm.
Grant Edwards
Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.
Alan J. Perlis
It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
Alan J. Perlis
Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.
Cory Doctorow
The idea that I can be presented with a problem, set out to logically solve it with the tools at hand, and wind up with a program that could not be legally used because someone else followed the same logical steps some years ago and filed for a patent on it is horrifying.
John Carmack on software patents
It takes an intelligent person to build something complex; it takes a genius to build something simple.
Anonymous
If we can't fix it, then it ain't broke.
Jon Bentley
Easy things should be easy and hard things should be possible.
Larry Wall