Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Education is the process of learning more and more about less and less until one knows everything about nothing and is entitled to call oneself 'Doctor'.
Anonymous
Any sufficiently well-documented lisp program contains an ML program in its comments.
Anonymous
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.
Anonymous
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
Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.
Brian Kernighan
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
Douglas Adams
Simplicity - the art of maximizing the amount of work not done - is essential.
Agile Manifesto
There is not now, nor has there ever been, nor will there ever be, any programming language in which it is the least bit difficult to write bad code.
Anonymous
The third version is the first version that doesn't suck.
Mike Simpson
We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.
Larry Wall