Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
We will never run out of things to program as long as there is a single program around.
Alan J. Perlis
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Antoine de Saint Exupéry
If you can build it, your users can break it.
Anonymous
There's more than one way to do it.
Larry Wall about Perl
Tell me what you need and I'll tell you how to get along without it.
Anonymous
Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
Alan J. Perlis
The word “experienced” often refers to someone who’s gotten away with doing the wrong thing more frequently than you have.
Laurence Gonzales
You can't eliminate problems, but you can make trades to get problems that you prefer over the ones you have now.
Eric Sink’s Axiom of Software Development
It is the user who should parameterize procedures, not their creators.
Alan J. Perlis
Designing software in a team is like writing poetry in a committee meeting.
Joel Spolsky