Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Complexity has nothing to do with intelligence, simplicity does.
Larry Bossidy
I know it doesn't sound like a big effort, but programmers are really, really lazy, and they like to minimize motion. They'd use feeder tubes if the Health Department would let them.
Steve Yegge
Testing like the TSA.
David Heinemeier Hansson on testing too much
I will not be a lemming and follow the crowd over the cliff and into the C.
John Beidler
The idea that I can be presented with a problem, set out to logically solve it with the tools at hand, and wind up with a program that could not be legally used because someone else followed the same logical steps some years ago and filed for a patent on it is horrifying.
John Carmack on software patents
If you have a procedure with ten parameters, you probably missed some.
Alan J. Perlis
To most Java developers, Ruby/Rails is like a mistress. Ruby/Rails is young, new, and exciting; but eventually we go back to old faithful, dependable, and employable Java with some new tricks and idioms and we are the better programmer for it.
Juixe TechKnow
Software and cathedrals are much the same - first we build them, then we pray.
Anonymous
Some programmers, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use floating point arithmetic." Now they have 1.999999999997 problems.
Tom Scott
Change breaks the brittle.
Jan Houtema