Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
There is not now, nor has there ever been, nor will there ever be, any programming language in which it is the least bit difficult to write bad code.
Anonymous
In the long run every program becomes rococo - then rubble.
Alan J. Perlis
God did not create the world in seven days; for six days he screwed around and then pulled an all-nighter.
Anonymous
It can scarcely be denied that the supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a single datum of experience.
Albert Einstein
The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.
Oswald Chambers
Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.
Cory Doctorow
First, solve the problem. Then, write the code.
John Johnson
I have found that the reason a lot of people are interested in artificial intelligence is the same reason a lot of people are interested in artificial limbs: they are missing one.
David Parnas
Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter.
Eric Raymond
With regard to adding more programmers to get a project done faster - Nine people can't make a baby in a month.
Fred Brooks