Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
It takes an intelligent person to build something complex; it takes a genius to build something simple.
Anonymous
Fifty years of programming language research, and we end up with C++ ?
Richard A. O'Keefe
The best things are simple, but finding these simple things is not simple.
Anonymous
In a world without walls and fences, who needs Windows and Gates?
Anonymous
The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.
Oswald Chambers
Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.
Albert Einstein
Designing software in a team is like writing poetry in a committee meeting.
Joel Spolsky
In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can't.
Alan J. Perlis
Think of it! With VLSI we can pack 100 ENIACS in 1 sq. cm.
Alan J. Perlis
Giving up on assembly language was the apple in our Garden of Eden: Languages whose use squanders machine cycles are sinful. The LISP machine now permits LISP programmers to abandon bra and fig-leaf.
Alan J. Perlis