Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The function of good software is to make the complex appear to be simple.
Grady Booch
Only in wealth, there is room for a bad idea.
Jasper van der Meer
The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.
Oswald Chambers
If it doesn't work, change the documentation.
Anonymous
Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches: Banality soothes our nerves.
Alan J. Perlis
If a program manipulates a large amount of data, it does so in a small number of ways.
Alan J. Perlis
You can't solve social problems through technical means.
Anonymous
The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures.
Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Thomas A. Edison
C: a language that combines all the elegance and power of assembly language with all the readability and maintainability of assembly language.
Anonymous