Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Over the centuries the Indians developed sign language for communicating phenomena of interest. Programmers from different tribes (FORTRAN, LISP, ALGOL, SNOBOL, etc.) could use one that doesn't require them to carry a blackboard on their ponies.
Alan J. Perlis
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction.
E.F. Schumacher
I'll try to be nicer if you try to be smarter.
Assaf Nitzan
Software isn't about methodologies, languages, or even operating systems. It is about working applications.
Christopher Baus
A programmer never dies he just degrades gracefully.
Anonymous
Software is like sex: It's better when it's free.
Linus Torvalds
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
E. W. Dijkstra
Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
Alan J. Perlis
If it doesn't work, change the documentation.
Anonymous
What happens in the mind of a fine artist is nothing different from that going on in the mind of an expert coder. Both see and thrive in the quintessential nature of patterns.
Lawrence Mucheka