Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.
Pablo Picasso
I know it doesn't sound like a big effort, but programmers are really, really lazy, and they like to minimize motion. They'd use feeder tubes if the Health Department would let them.
Steve Yegge
There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult.
C.A.R. Hoare.
Software Engineering isn't rocket science ... it's harder.
Anonymous
They did not know it was impossible, so they did it!
Mark Twain
Any problem in computer science can be solved with another layer of indirection. But that usually will create another problem.
David Wheeler
Perl - The only language that looks the same before and after RSA encryption.
Keith Bostic
If you get it free, it is worthless. If you pay for it, it has value. If you build it yourself, it is priceless.
Raj More
Only Half of programming is coding. The other 90% is debugging.
Anonymous
Computation has made the tree flower.
Alan J. Perlis