Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
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
Any sufficiently well-documented lisp program contains an ML program in its comments.
Anonymous
A computer programmer is a device for turning coffee into bugs.
Bram Moolenaar
God could create the world in six days because he didn't have to make it compatible with the previous version.
Anonymous
I'm not a great programmer; I'm just a good programmer with great habits.
Kent Beck
I was a C++ programmer before I started designing Ruby. I programmed in C++ exclusively for two or three years. And after two years of C++ programming, it still surprised me.
Matz
Editing is a rewording activity.
Alan J. Perlis
Programming is an unnatural act.
Alan J. Perlis
Good design adds value faster than it adds cost.
Thomas C. Gale
Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written, and another for which it wasn't.
Alan J. Perlis