Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
You have to "solve" the problem once in order to clearly define it and then solve it again to create a solution that works.
Anonymous
Programming is difficult. At its core, it is about managing complexity. Computer programs are the most complex things that humans make. Quality is illusive and elusive.
Douglas Crockford
There's more than one way to do it.
Larry Wall about Perl
Jesus saves but only Buddha makes incremental backups.
Anonymous
There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
Alan J. Perlis
Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.
Alan Kay
... one of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs.
Robert Firth
No one hates software more than software developers.
Jeff Atwood
Arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
Alan Kay
It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.
Hofstadter's Law