Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The idea that I can be presented with a problem, set out to logically solve it with the tools at hand, and wind up with a program that could not be legally used because someone else followed the same logical steps some years ago and filed for a patent on it is horrifying.
John Carmack on software patents
The function of good software is to make the complex appear to be simple.
Grady Booch
For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
H L Mencken
Debugging is anticipated with distaste, performed with reluctance, and bragged about forever.
Dan Kaminsky
Some programmers try to reach higher by standing on other programmers' shoulders. Other programmers try to reach higher by standing on other programmers' toes.
Anonymous
A C program is like a fast dance on a newly waxed dance floor by people carrying razors.
Waldi Ravens
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that it's all learned.
Bruce Ediger
Re graphics: A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
Alan J. Perlis
Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen.
Edward V Berard
You think you know when you can learn, are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
Alan J. Perlis