Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
You're never done, you just run out of time.
Anonymous
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
Human beings are not accustomed to being perfect, and few areas of human activity demand it. Adjusting to the requirement for perfection is, I think, the most difficult part of learning to program.
Anonymous
Engineering is the art of doing with one dollar what any damn fool can do with two.
From Space Systems Failures by David M. Harland and Ralph D. Lorenz
All programmers are optimists.
Frederick Brooks
Code reuse is the Holy Grail of Software Engineering.
Douglas Crockford
As soon as you agree on the number of spaces for indentation, no-one argues for tabs.
Alvar Lumberg
One programmer can do in one day what two programmers can do in two.
Anonymous
Software with no bugs is obsolete.
Anonymous
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