Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Beware of the Turing tar-pit in which everything is possible but nothing of interest is easy.
Alan J. Perlis
Complexity has nothing to do with intelligence, simplicity does.
Larry Bossidy
It's interface, not in your face.
Kai Krause
Symmetry is a complexity-reducing concept (co-routines include subroutines); seek it everywhere.
Alan J. Perlis
You can write software expecting the hardware to be perfect, unfortunately hardware is not perfect and you have to fix it in code.
W. Giraud
Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live.
Rick Osborne
Bringing computers into the home won't change either one, but may revitalize the corner saloon.
Alan J. Perlis
There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.
Bjarne Stroustrup
When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
R. Buckminster Fuller
If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
Alan J. Perlis