Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
It can scarcely be denied that the supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a single datum of experience.
Albert Einstein
There is no programming language, no matter how structured, that will prevent programmers from making bad programs.
Larry Flon
The Floppy Disk Icon means "save" for a whole generation of people who have never seen one.
Scott Hanselman
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
Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them.
Alan J. Perlis
Code is never finished, only abandoned.
Anonymous
If it works, leave it alone — there's no need to understand it. If it fails, try to fix it — there's no time to understand it.
Bill Pfeifer
So many good ideas are never heard from again once they embark in a voyage on the semantic gulf.
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
Making something variable is easy. Controlling duration of constancy is the trick.
Alan J. Perlis