Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Elegance is not optional.
Richard A. O'Keefe (from The Craft of Prolog)
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Antoine de Saint Exupéry
FORTRAN was the language of choice for the same reason that three-legged races are popular.
Ken Thompson
If you can build it, your users can break it.
Anonymous
If we'd asked the customers what they wanted, they would have said "faster horses".
Henry Ford
Test driven development is like eating watermelon. Slice it up and work in sections at a time; eat all the red until all you have left is green.
Terry L Thompson
Good architecture is necessary to give programs enough structure to be able to grow large without collapsing into a puddle of confusion.
Douglas Crockford
In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word "frustration".
Alan J. Perlis
It's OK to figure out murder mysteries, but you shouldn't need to figure out code. You should be able to read it.
Steve McConnell
To iterate is human, to recurse divine.
L. Peter Deutsch