Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Programming is an unnatural act.
Alan J. Perlis
If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
Hal Abelson
Good judgement is the result of experience ... Experience is the result of bad judgement.
Fred Brooks
Deleted code is debugged code.
Jeff Sickel
The real money isn't in the software. It's in the service you build with that software.
Jeff Atwood
This is important, and a little hard to understand. English is useful because it's a mess. Since English is a mess, it maps well onto the problem space, which is also a mess, which we call reality. Similarly, Perl was designed to be a mess (though in the nicest of possible ways).
Larry Wall
Engineering is the art of doing with one dollar what any damn fool can do with two.
From Space Systems Failures by David M. Harland and Ralph D. Lorenz
Testing like the TSA.
David Heinemeier Hansson on testing too much
Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.
Anonymous
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Leonardo da Vinci