Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The difference between theory and practice is smaller in theory than in practice.
Anonymous
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
Perspective is worth 80 I.Q. points
Alan Kay
It takes an intelligent person to build something complex; it takes a genius to build something simple.
Anonymous
It is the user who should parameterize procedures, not their creators.
Alan J. Perlis
Code is everything I thought poetry was, back when we were in school. Clean, expressive, urgent, all-encompassing. Fourteen lines can open up to fill the available universe.
Richard Powers
Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter.
Eric Raymond
Anything that can go wrong will go wrong, anything that can't go wrong will go wrong anyway.
Anonymous
Simplicity - the art of maximizing the amount of work not done - is essential.
Agile Manifesto
Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from a rigged demonstration.
Anonymous