Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Code reuse is the Holy Grail of Software Engineering.
Douglas Crockford
The computer is the ultimate polluter: its feces are indistinguish- able from the food it produces.
Alan J. Perlis
Starting a startup is hard, but having a 9 to 5 job is hard too, and in some ways a worse kind of hard.
Paul Graham
Systems have sub-systems and sub-systems have sub- systems and so on ad infinitum - which is why we're always starting over.
Alan J. Perlis
Around computers it is difficult to find the correct unit of time to measure progress. Some cathedrals took a century to complete. Can you imagine the grandeur and scope of a program that would take as long?
Alan J. Perlis
Designing software in a team is like writing poetry in a committee meeting.
Joel Spolsky
Deleted code is debugged code.
Jeff Sickel
It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program. What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail and learning to be self-critical?
Alan J. Perlis
Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.
From SICP