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
There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use.
Freeman Dyson
You can't eliminate problems, but you can make trades to get problems that you prefer over the ones you have now.
Eric Sink’s Axiom of Software Development
To iterate is human, to recurse divine.
L. Peter Deutsch
Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
Alan J. Perlis
Every dark corner you haven't explored with your flashlight is full of bugs.
Kent Beck and Martin Fowler
It's difficult to extract sense from strings, but they're the only communication coin we can count on.
Alan J. Perlis
Processes and methodologies can make good servants but are poor masters.
Mark Dowd, John McDonald & Justin Schuh
Testing like the TSA.
David Heinemeier Hansson on testing too much
The computer reminds one of Lon Chaney -- it is the machine of a thousand faces.
Alan J. Perlis