Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Leonardo da Vinci
Design bugs are often subtle and occur by evolution with early assumptions being forgotten as new features or uses are added to a system.
Fernando J. Corbató
In my experience, one of the most significant problems in software development is assuming. If you assume a method will passed the right parameter value, the method will fail.
Paul M. Duvall
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If it's original, you'll have to ram it down their throats.
Howard Aiken
True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read.
Pliny the Elder
Simplicity is hard to build, easy to use, and hard to charge for. Complexity is easy to build, hard to use, and easy to charge for.
Chris Sacca
Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
Alan Kay
Talk is cheap, show me the code!
Linus Torvalds
There are only two industries that refer to their customers as users: the computer industry and the drug trade.
Edward Tufte
Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
Alan J. Perlis