Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
It is often easier to not do something dumb than it is to do something smart.
Anonymous
I (...) am rarely happier than when spending an entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that would otherwise take me a good ten seconds to do by hand.
Douglas Adams
If you give someone a program, you will frustrate them for a day; if you teach them how to program, you will frustrate them for a lifetime.
Anonymous
If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.
Cicero
It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.
Alan J. Perlis
In a world without walls and fences, who needs Windows and Gates?
Anonymous
Saying that Java is good because it works on all platforms is like saying anal sex is good because it works on all genders.
Anonymous
Before software should be reusable, it should be usable.
Ralph Johnson
The function name should define everything the function does.
Anonymous
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Leonardo da Vinci