Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Programming is difficult. At its core, it is about managing complexity. Computer programs are the most complex things that humans make. Quality is illusive and elusive.
Douglas Crockford
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
Don't code today what you can't debug tomorrow
Anonymous
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
Vincent van Gogh
Going from programming in Pascal to programming in C, is like learning to write in Morse code.
J.P. Candusso
Good design adds value faster than it adds cost.
Thomas C. Gale
The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
Harlan Ellison
Compatibility means deliberately repeating other people's mistakes.
Anonymous
Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.
Bill Gates
I think there's a world market for about five computers.
Thomas J Watson Senior, 1945