Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Software isn't about methodologies, languages, or even operating systems. It is about working applications.
Christopher Baus
Most people find the concept of programming obvious, but the doing impossible.
Alan J. Perlis
The best book on programming for the layman is "Alice in Wonderland"; but that's because it's the best book on anything for the layman.
Alan J. Perlis
Tell me what you need and I'll tell you how to get along without it.
Anonymous
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.
The C Programming Language — A language which combines the flexibility of assembly language with the power of assembly language.
Anonymous
I’ve finally learned what ‘upward compatible’ means. It means we get to keep all our old mistakes.
Dennie van Tassel
Complexity has nothing to do with intelligence, simplicity does.
Larry Bossidy
Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
Alan J. Perlis
...basically, avoid comments. If your code needs a comment to be understood, it would be better to rewrite it so it's easier to understand.
Rob Pike