Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
It compiles. Ship it!
Anonymous
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
An ideal world is left as an exercise to the reader.
From Paul Graham's "On Lisp"
Designing software in a team is like writing poetry in a committee meeting.
Joel Spolsky
The goal of Computer Science is to build something that will last at least until we've finished building it.
Anonymous
Structured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.
Alan J. Perlis
If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.
Edsger Dijkstra
It makes no sense to try to do what we can. We must do what is necessary.
Winston Churchill
Never underestimate the disparity between developer excitement and user apathy.
Anonymous
I invented the term Object-Oriented, and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
Alan Kay