Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Weeks of coding can save you hours of planning.
Anonymous
A startup now can be just a pair of 22 year old guys. A company like that can move much more easily than one with 10 people, half of whom have kids.
Paul Graham
The more bizarre the behavior, the more stupid the mistake.
Ed's Law of Debugging
Team debugging: the act of intimidating a PC into doing for two people what it refuses to do for one.
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
Better train people and risk they leave – than do nothing and risk they stay.
Anonymous
Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches: Banality soothes our nerves.
Alan J. Perlis
Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen.
Edward V Berard
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Leonardo da Vinci
... what society overwhelmingly asks for is snake oil. Of course, the snake oil has the most impressive names — otherwise you would be selling nothing — like "Structured Analysis and Design", "Software Engineering", "Maturity Models", "Management Information Systems", "Integrated Project Support Environments" "Object Orientation" and "Business Process Re-engineering" (the latter three being known as IPSE, OO and BPR, respectively).
Edsger W. Dijkstra