Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Good web applications should look like trifle.
Cal Henderson
The whole HTML validation exercise is questionable, but validating as XHTML is flat-out masochism. Only recommended for those that enjoy pain. Or programmers. I can't always tell the difference.
Jeff Atwood
There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult.
C.A.R. Hoare.
The function name should define everything the function does.
Anonymous
You're never done, you just run out of time.
Anonymous
An idiot with a computer is a faster, better idiot.
Rich Julius
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
E. W. Dijkstra
Ready, fire, aim: the fast approach to software development. Ready, aim, aim, aim, aim: the slow approach to software development.
Anonymous
C++ has its place in the history of programming languages. Just as Caligula has his place in the history of the Roman Empire.
Robert Firth
Before software should be reusable, it should be usable.
Ralph Johnson