Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Selecting a project due date before the requirements are properly gathered is like selecting which corner you want to paint yourself into, while simultaneously negating the doorway as a viable option.
Chris Ames
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Antoine de Saint Exupéry
Computers are getting smarter all the time. Scientists tell us that soon they will be able to talk to us. (And by 'they', I mean 'computers'. I doubt scientists will ever be able to talk to us.)
Dave Barry
Making something variable is easy. Controlling duration of constancy is the trick.
Alan J. Perlis
APL, I believe, can only be learned by writing one-liners–only by seeing in a sense, what you can compress into a line.
Alan J Perlis
It takes an intelligent person to build something complex; it takes a genius to build something simple.
Anonymous
Programming is like sex: one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life.
Michael Sinz
The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late."
Seymour Cray
Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from a rigged demonstration.
Anonymous
Behind Every Successful Coder, there'an even more successful De-Coder to understand that Code.
Anonymous