Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
When I have a specific goal in mind and a complicated piece of code to write, I spend my time making it happen rather than telling myself stories about it.
Steve Yegge
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
Vincent van Gogh
The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures.
Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
KISS - Keep It Simple Stupid
Anonymous
Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction: One, it's completely impossible. Two, it's possible, but it's not worth doing. Three, I said it was a good idea all along.
Arthur C. Clarke
People who deal with bits should expect to get bitten.
Jon Bentley
Enlightened trial and error outperforms the planning of flawless intellects.
David Kelly
It is often easier to not do something dumb than it is to do something smart.
Anonymous
The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.
Larry Wall
Java is C++ without the guns, knives, and clubs.
James Gosling