Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Most people find the concept of programming obvious, but the doing impossible.
Alan J. Perlis
Programming is an unnatural act.
Alan J. Perlis
You can't eliminate problems, but you can make trades to get problems that you prefer over the ones you have now.
Eric Sink’s Axiom of Software Development
It's difficult to extract sense from strings, but they're the only communication coin we can count on.
Alan J. Perlis
Sure, it's overkill. But you can never have too much overkill...
Anonymous
Inside every complex program is a simple program trying to get out.
Anonymous
If architects built houses the way programmers built programs, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization.
Gerald Weinberg
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that it's all learned.
Bruce Ediger
Perspective is worth 80 I.Q. points
Alan Kay
No one hates software more than software developers.
Jeff Atwood