Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The function of good software is to make the complex appear to be simple.
Grady Booch
The goal of computation is the emulation of our synthetic abilities, not the understanding of our analytic ones.
Alan J. Perlis
The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures.
Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.
Cory Doctorow
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
Alan J. Perlis
If you're going to break it, then break it good. Break everything. Get to the very front of the line. Don't like move up a couple of slots. That's pointless.
Anders Hejlsberg
A startup now can be just a pair of 22 year old guys. A company like that can move much more easily than one with 10 people, half of whom have kids.
Paul Graham
The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
Harlan Ellison
Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.
Martin Fowler
Software isn't about methodologies, languages, or even operating systems. It is about working applications.
Christopher Baus