Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
Alan J. Perlis
My programs don't have bugs, they just develop random features.
Anonymous
Java is like a variant of the game of Tetris in which none of the pieces can fill gaps created by the other pieces, so all you can do is pile them up endlessly.
Steve Yegge
Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live.
Rick Osborne
A startup now can be just a pair of 22 year old guys. A company like that can move much more easily than one with 10 people, half of whom have kids.
Paul Graham
I hate code, and I want as little of it in our product as possible.
Jack Diederich
There are only 3 numbers of interest to a computer scientist: 1, 0 and infinity.
Anonymous
The difference between something that can go wrong and something that can’t possibly go wrong is that when something that can’t possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.
Douglas Adams
Professionalism has no place in art, and hacking is art. Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer.
Jamie Zawinski
If architects built houses the way programmers built programs, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization.
Gerald Weinberg