Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed — it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.
Alan J. Perlis
For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
H L Mencken
Good enough is neither.
Jim Spivey
Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use regular expressions." Now they have two problems.
Jamie Zawinski
Purely applicative languages are poorly applicable.
Alan J. Perlis
Software is like sex: It's better when it's free.
Linus Torvalds
Good architecture is necessary to give programs enough structure to be able to grow large without collapsing into a puddle of confusion.
Douglas Crockford
The difference between theory and practice is smaller in theory than in practice.
Anonymous
Within a computer natural language is unnatural.
Alan J. Perlis
In essence, let the market design the product.
Paul Graham