Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Simplicity is hard to build, easy to use, and hard to charge for. Complexity is easy to build, hard to use, and easy to charge for.
Chris Sacca
You might as well pay your customers 50K because they are just your QA.
Juixe TechKnow
Ready, fire, aim: the fast approach to software development.
Anonymous
Ready, aim, aim, aim, aim: the slow approach to software development.
Rules are for the obedience of the inexperienced and the guidance of the wise.
Anonymous
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If it's original, you'll have to ram it down their throats.
Howard Aiken
We better hurry up and start coding, there are going to be a lot of bugs to fix.
Anonymous
If you don't think you're doing great things, you're probably right.
Anonymous
Make it correct,
Wes Dyer
make it clear,
make it concise,
make it fast.
In that order.
There are only two industries that refer to their customers as users: the computer industry and the drug trade.
Edward Tufte
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