Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can't.
Alan J. Perlis
Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.
Edsger Dijkstra
KISS - Keep It Simple Stupid
Anonymous
If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution.
Robert Sewell
I would love to change the world, but they won't give me the source code.
Anonymous
Only in wealth, there is room for a bad idea.
Jasper van der Meer
Development has two outputs... Code & Bugs
Anonymous
What you’ve described, “The bottleneck in writing code isn’t in the writing of the code, it’s in understanding and conceptualising what needs to be done,” is common to all highly abstract programming languages. Writing Haskell, for example, involves an hour of meditation followed by the emission of a fold expression.
Jonathan Feinberg
The third version is the first version that doesn't suck.
Mike Simpson
... 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