Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The idea that I can be presented with a problem, set out to logically solve it with the tools at hand, and wind up with a program that could not be legally used because someone else followed the same logical steps some years ago and filed for a patent on it is horrifying.
John Carmack on software patents
It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.
Hofstadter's Law
Don't fix it if it ain't broke presupposes that you can't improve something that works reasonably well already. If the world's inventors had believed this, we'd still be driving Model A Fords and using outhouses.
H. W. Kenton
Documentation is like sex. When it's good, it's fantastic. When it's bad, it's still better than nothing.
Anonymous
As soon as you agree on the number of spaces for indentation, no-one argues for tabs.
Alvar Lumberg
A good system can't have a weak command language.
Alan J. Perlis
Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.
Alan Kay
Better train people and risk they leave – than do nothing and risk they stay.
Anonymous
Software is hard.
Donald Knuth
Code is never finished, only abandoned.
Anonymous