Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
Alan J. Perlis
Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.
Albert Einstein
Good architecture is necessary to give programs enough structure to be able to grow large without collapsing into a puddle of confusion.
Douglas Crockford
If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.
Cicero
God is a hacker, not an engineer. You can do reverse engineering, but you can’t do reverse hacking.
Francis Crick
On the 7th day ... God began debugging.
Anonymous
A startup now can be just a pair of 22 year old guys. A company like that can move much more easily than one with 10 people, half of whom have kids.
Paul Graham
Like punning, programming is a play on words.
Alan J. Perlis
Make something fool-proof and someone will make a better fool.
Anonymous
What I cannot build, I do not understand.
Richard Feynman