Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Symmetry is a complexity-reducing concept (co-routines include subroutines); seek it everywhere.
Alan J. Perlis
Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.
Albert Einstein
Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor.
Wernher von Braun
Computation has made the tree flower.
Alan J. Perlis
If you get it free, it is worthless. If you pay for it, it has value. If you build it yourself, it is priceless.
Raj More
The object-oriented model makes it easy to build up programs by accretion. What this often means, in practice, is that it provides a structured way to write spaghetti code.
Paul Graham
If we're supposed to work in Hex, why have we only got A fingers?
Anonymous
There is no programming language, no matter how structured, that will prevent programmers from making bad programs.
Larry Flon
Don’t fix bugs later; fix them now.
Steve Maguire
Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.
Bill Gates