Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
I know it doesn't sound like a big effort, but programmers are really, really lazy, and they like to minimize motion. They'd use feeder tubes if the Health Department would let them.
Steve Yegge
Make something fool-proof and someone will make a better fool.
Anonymous
Compatibility means deliberately repeating other people's mistakes.
Anonymous
If we believe in data structures, we must believe in independent (hence simultaneous) processing. For why else would we collect items within a structure? Why do we tolerate languages that give us the one without the other?
Alan J. Perlis
As Will Rogers would have said, "There is no such thing as a free variable."
Alan J. Perlis
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
A programmer that is 10 times better than another will probably be happy making only 3 times as much.
Paul Graham
Weeks of coding can save you hours of planning.
Anonymous
It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.
Hofstadter's Law
Complexity has nothing to do with intelligence, simplicity does.
Larry Bossidy