Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
Alan Kay
Simplicity is hard to build, easy to use, and hard to charge for. Complexity is easy to build, hard to use, and easy to charge for.
Chris Sacca
The most important computer is the one that rages in our skulls and ever seeks that satisfactory external emulator. The standarization of real computers would be a disaster - and so it probably won't happen.
Alan J. Perlis
If architects built houses the way programmers built programs, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization.
Gerald Weinberg
Weeks of coding can save you hours of planning.
Anonymous
Let the code run free, if it needs to be debugged, it will come back.
Anonymous
In software systems, it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
Alan J. Perlis
Good web applications should look like trifle.
Cal Henderson
Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls must dive down below.
John Dryden
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
Vincent van Gogh