Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction.
E.F. Schumacher
In software, the most beautiful code, the most beautiful functions, and the most beautiful programs are sometimes not there at all.
Jon Bentley
Over the centuries the Indians developed sign language for communicating phenomena of interest. Programmers from different tribes (FORTRAN, LISP, ALGOL, SNOBOL, etc.) could use one that doesn't require them to carry a blackboard on their ponies.
Alan J. Perlis
Brevity is the soul of wit.
Shakespeare
Software is hard.
Donald Knuth
There is no IRL, only AFK
Anonymous
90% of everything is crap
Sturgeon's Revelation
The key to performance is elegance, not battalions of special cases.
Jon Bentley and Doug McIlroy
Organizations which design systems are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations.
Conway's Law
Your code is both good and original. Unfortunately the parts that are good are not original, and the parts that are original are not good.
Anonymous