Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
In a world without walls and fences, who needs Windows and Gates?
Anonymous
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Antoine de Saint Exupéry
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Leonardo da Vinci
Lines of code are only worth counting, when time has come to delete them.
Anonymous
When you want to do something differently from the rest of the world, it's a good idea to look into whether the rest of the world knows something you don't.
Anonymous
When I have a specific goal in mind and a complicated piece of code to write, I spend my time making it happen rather than telling myself stories about it.
Steve Yegge
There's a fine line between being on the leading edge and being in the lunatic fringe.
Frank Armstrong
Making something variable is easy. Controlling duration of constancy is the trick.
Alan J. Perlis
The reason we plan ahead is so that we don't have to do anything right now.
Anonymous
If you get it free, it is worthless. If you pay for it, it has value. If you build it yourself, it is priceless.
Raj More