Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.
Martin Fowler
Your code is both good and original. Unfortunately the parts that are good are not original, and the parts that are original are not good.
Anonymous
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
E. W. Dijkstra
The computer is the ultimate polluter: its feces are indistinguish- able from the food it produces.
Alan J. Perlis
In computing, invariants are ephemeral.
Alan J. Perlis
How do we convince people that in programming simplicity and clarity —in short: what mathematicians call "elegance"— are not a dispensable luxury, but a crucial matter that decides between success and failure?
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
Hanlon's Razor
There are only two industries that refer to their customers as users: the computer industry and the drug trade.
Edward Tufte
Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.
Andy Rooney
The Floppy Disk Icon means "save" for a whole generation of people who have never seen one.
Scott Hanselman