Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
Alan J. Perlis
When I have a specific goal in mind and a complicated piece of code to write, I spend my time making it happen rather than telling myself stories about it.
Steve Yegge
Professionalism has no place in art, and hacking is art. Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer.
Jamie Zawinski
Easy things should be easy and hard things should be possible.
Larry Wall
Good programmers learn more from "That's not what I expected!" than from getting it right the first time.
Anonymous
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
Vincent van Gogh
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
When we understand knowledge-based systems, it will be as before -- except our fingertips will have been singed.
Alan J. Perlis
Organizations which design systems are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations.
Conway's Law
Java is C++ without the guns, knives, and clubs.
James Gosling