Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Before software should be reusable, it should be usable.
Ralph Johnson
Any problem in computer science can be solved with another layer of indirection. But that usually will create another problem.
David Wheeler
The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague.
Edsger Dijkstra
Bringing computers into the home won't change either one, but may revitalize the corner saloon.
Alan J. Perlis
One programmer can do in one day what two programmers can do in two.
Anonymous
Compatibility means deliberately repeating other people's mistakes.
Anonymous
The real money isn't in the software. It's in the service you build with that software.
Jeff Atwood
You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.
Alan J. Perlis
I (...) am rarely happier than when spending an entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that would otherwise take me a good ten seconds to do by hand.
Douglas Adams
The reason we plan ahead is so that we don't have to do anything right now.
Anonymous