Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
You can't communicate complexity, only an awareness of it.
Alan J. Perlis
They won't tell you that they don't understand it; they will happily invent their way through the gaps and obscurities.
V.A. Vyssotsky on software programmers and their views on specifications
The key to performance is elegance, not battalions of special cases.
Jon Bentley and Doug McIlroy
In computing, invariants are ephemeral.
Alan J. Perlis
Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.
Brian Kernighan
Never underestimate the disparity between developer excitement and user apathy.
Anonymous
Though a program be but three lines long, someday it will have to be maintained.
Tao Of Programming
A programmer never dies he just degrades gracefully.
Anonymous
There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use.
Freeman Dyson
Testing like the TSA.
David Heinemeier Hansson on testing too much