Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.
Andy Rooney
Often it is the means that justify the ends: Goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
Alan J. Perlis
For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
H L Mencken
Good design adds value faster than it adds cost.
Thomas C. Gale
A computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things. They are, in short, a perfect match.
Bill Bryson
Yes, sometimes Perl looks like line noise to the uninitiated, but to the seasoned Perl programmer, it looks like checksummed line noise with a mission in life.
Randal Schwartz
There's more than one way to do it.
Larry Wall about Perl
Enlightened trial and error outperforms the planning of flawless intellects.
David Kelly
It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.
Hofstadter's Law
Good programmers learn more from "That's not what I expected!" than from getting it right the first time.
Anonymous