Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If a listener nods his head when you're explaining your program, wake him up.
Alan J. Perlis
Any code of your own that you haven't looked at for six or more months might as well have been written by someone else.
Eagleson's Law
Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
Alan J. Perlis
There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use.
Freeman Dyson
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
E. W. Dijkstra
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
Alan J. Perlis
You start writing code, I'll go see what the customer wants
Anonymous
I think there's a world market for about five computers.
Thomas J Watson Senior, 1945
I'll try to be nicer if you try to be smarter.
Assaf Nitzan
Good enough is neither.
Jim Spivey