Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The word “experienced” often refers to someone who’s gotten away with doing the wrong thing more frequently than you have.
Laurence Gonzales
Code is everything I thought poetry was, back when we were in school. Clean, expressive, urgent, all-encompassing. Fourteen lines can open up to fill the available universe.
Richard Powers
A well-written program is its own heaven; a poorly-written program is its own hell.
Tao of Programming
Good design adds value faster than it adds cost.
Thomas C. Gale
Designing software in a team is like writing poetry in a committee meeting.
Joel Spolsky
The string is a stark data structure and everywhere it is passed there is much duplication of process. It is a perfect vehicle for hiding information.
Alan J. Perlis
Software with no bugs is obsolete.
Anonymous
For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
H L Mencken
I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
Vincent van Gogh