Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Programming is difficult. At its core, it is about managing complexity. Computer programs are the most complex things that humans make. Quality is illusive and elusive.
Douglas Crockford
Processes and methodologies can make good servants but are poor masters.
Mark Dowd, John McDonald & Justin Schuh
Perhaps if we wrote programs from childhood on, as adults we'd be able to read them.
Alan J. Perlis
Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.
George S. Patton
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction.
E.F. Schumacher
There are 10 types of people. Those who can read ternary, those who can't and those who mistake it for binary.
Anonymous
Programming is like sex: one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life.
Michael Sinz
Prolonged contact with the computer turns mathematicians into clerks and vice versa.
Alan J. Perlis
Like wine, the mastery of programming matures with time. But, unlike wine, it gets sweeter in the process.
Lawrence Mucheka
Some programmers, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use floating point arithmetic." Now they have 1.999999999997 problems.
Tom Scott