Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
... what society overwhelmingly asks for is snake oil. Of course, the snake oil has the most impressive names — otherwise you would be selling nothing — like "Structured Analysis and Design", "Software Engineering", "Maturity Models", "Management Information Systems", "Integrated Project Support Environments" "Object Orientation" and "Business Process Re-engineering" (the latter three being known as IPSE, OO and BPR, respectively).
Edsger W. Dijkstra
UNIX is user friendly. It just picks whom it wants to be friends with.
Anonymous
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
Alan J. Perlis
Beware of the Turing tar-pit in which everything is possible but nothing of interest is easy.
Alan J. Perlis
People who find Wiki-markup too difficult to use and need a WYSIWYG-editor shouldn't be using a Wiki in the first place.
Anonymous
Think of all the psychic energy expended in seeking a fundamental distinction between "algorithm" and "program".
Alan J. Perlis
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
E. W. Dijkstra
Working software is the primary measure of progress.
Agile Manifesto
Giving pointers and threads to programmers is like giving whisky and car keys to teenagers.
P. J. O'Rourke
It is easier to optimize correct code than to correct optimized code.
Anonymous