Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.
Dennis Ritchie
If architects built houses the way programmers built programs, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization.
Gerald Weinberg
Beware of the Turing tar-pit in which everything is possible but nothing of interest is easy.
Alan J. Perlis
In seeking the unattainable, simplicity only gets in the way.
Alan J. Perlis
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
Perspective is worth 80 I.Q. points
Alan Kay
When a programming language is created that allows programmers to program in simple English, it will be discovered that programmers cannot speak English.
Anonymous
Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen.
Edward V Berard
C is to programming as Latin is to literature.
Anonymous
We're even wrong about which mistakes we're making.
Carl Winfeld