Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
It takes an intelligent person to build something complex; it takes a genius to build something simple.
Anonymous
Debugging is anticipated with distaste, performed with reluctance, and bragged about forever.
Dan Kaminsky
If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.
Robert X. Cringely
Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction: One, it's completely impossible. Two, it's possible, but it's not worth doing. Three, I said it was a good idea all along.
Arthur C. Clarke
It is the user who should parameterize procedures, not their creators.
Alan J. Perlis
Like a gas, software expands to fill its containing memory completely.
Anonymous
Only in wealth, there is room for a bad idea.
Jasper van der Meer
The best things are simple, but finding these simple things is not simple.
Anonymous
The more bizarre the behavior, the more stupid the mistake.
Ed's Law of Debugging
True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read.
Pliny the Elder