Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The computer reminds one of Lon Chaney -- it is the machine of a thousand faces.
Alan J. Perlis
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Antoine de Saint Exupéry
Sex is fun, but it probably doesn't solve all your problems.
Larry Wall
If you get it free, it is worthless. If you pay for it, it has value. If you build it yourself, it is priceless.
Raj More
Simplicity - the art of maximizing the amount of work not done - is essential.
Agile Manifesto
Are you quite sure that all those bells and whistles, all those wonderful facilities of your so called powerful programming languages, belong to the solution set rather than the problem set?
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Make it correct,
Wes Dyer
make it clear,
make it concise,
make it fast.
In that order.
As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought.
Maurice Wilkes
From a programmer's point of view, the user is a peripheral that types when you issue a read request.
Peter Williams
A program without a loop and a structured variable isn't worth writing.
Alan J. Perlis