Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Fifty years of programming language research, and we end up with C++ ?
Richard A. O'Keefe
An ideal world is left as an exercise to the reader.
From Paul Graham's "On Lisp"
No one hates software more than software developers.
Jeff Atwood
It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all...
Larry Wall
The greatest performance improvement of all is when a system goes from not-working to working.
John Ousterhout
"It depends" is the answer to all good software engineering questions, but to be a good software engineer, you should know on what it depends, and why.
Anonymous
Simplicity is hard to build, easy to use, and hard to charge for. Complexity is easy to build, hard to use, and easy to charge for.
Chris Sacca
Simplicity - the art of maximizing the amount of work not done - is essential.
Agile Manifesto
Within a computer natural language is unnatural.
Alan J. Perlis
If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.
Cicero