Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them.
Alan J. Perlis
It’s hardware that makes a machine fast. It’s software that makes a fast machine slow.
Craig Bruce
Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.
Bill Gates
The goal of computation is the emulation of our synthetic abilities, not the understanding of our analytic ones.
Alan J. Perlis
There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult.
C.A.R. Hoare.
Good software, like wine, takes time.
Joel Spolsky
Programming is like sex: one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life.
Michael Sinz
Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
Alan J. Perlis
The first 90% of the code accounts for the first 90% of the development time. The remaining 10% of the code accounts for the other 90% of the development time.
Tom Cargill
Beware of the Turing tar-pit in which everything is possible but nothing of interest is easy.
Alan J. Perlis