Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
You can't communicate complexity, only an awareness of it.
Alan J. Perlis
Engineering is the art of doing with one dollar what any damn fool can do with two.
From Space Systems Failures by David M. Harland and Ralph D. Lorenz
If a listener nods his head when you're explaining your program, wake him up.
Alan J. Perlis
Mostly, when you see programmers, they aren't doing anything. One of the attractive things about programmers is that you cannot tell whether or not they are working simply by looking at them. Very often they're sitting there seemingly drinking coffee and gossiping, or just staring into space. What the programmer is trying to do is get a handle on all the individual and unrelated ideas that are scampering around in his head.
Charles M Strauss
There's more than one way to do it.
Larry Wall about Perl
We're even wrong about which mistakes we're making.
Carl Winfeld
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
Alan J. Perlis
In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
Alan J. Perlis
Good design adds value faster than it adds cost.
Thomas C. Gale
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Leonardo da Vinci