Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
In seeking the unattainable, simplicity only gets in the way.
Alan J. Perlis
The key to performance is elegance, not battalions of special cases.
Jon Bentley and Doug McIlroy
The function name should define everything the function does.
Anonymous
Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases.
Anonymous
Real Programmers don't comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand.
Anonymous
Most people find the concept of programming obvious, but the doing impossible.
Alan J. Perlis
As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.
Dave Parnas
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
Pablo Picasso
The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
Harlan Ellison
Remember, a great way to avoid broken code is to have less of it. The code that you never write will work forever.
Russ Olsen