Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
Alan J. Perlis
Good enough is neither.
Jim Spivey
We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.
Larry Wall
There are 10 types of people. Those who can read ternary, those who can't and those who mistake it for binary.
Anonymous
Don't worry if it doesn't work right. If everything did, you'd be out of a job.
Mosher's Law of Software Engineering
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
If a program manipulates a large amount of data, it does so in a small number of ways.
Alan J. Perlis
People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
Alan Kay
I would love to change the world, but they won't give me the source code.
Anonymous
The more bizarre the behavior, the more stupid the mistake.
Ed's Law of Debugging