Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Java is a DSL to transform big Xml documents into long exception stack traces.
Scott Bellware
If it doesn't have to work, we can do it real quick.
Watts Humphrey
Your code is both good and original. Unfortunately the parts that are good are not original, and the parts that are original are not good.
Anonymous
In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word "frustration".
Alan J. Perlis
When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
Alan J. Perlis
Like a gas, software expands to fill its containing memory completely.
Anonymous
C++ : Where friends have access to your private members.
Gavin Russell Baker
The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.
Larry Wall
Don't worry if it doesn't work right. If everything did, you'd be out of a job.
Mosher's Law of Software Engineering
It is not a language's weakness but its strengths that control the gradient of its change: Alas, a language never escapes its embryonic sac.
Alan J. Perlis