Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Any code of your own that you haven't looked at for six or more months might as well have been written by someone else.
Eagleson's Law
Java is a DSL to transform big Xml documents into long exception stack traces.
Scott Bellware
The use of a program to prove the 4-color theorem will not change mathematics - it merely demonstrates that the theorem, a challenge for a century, is probably not important to mathematics.
Alan J. Perlis
You start writing code, I'll go see what the customer wants
Anonymous
My programs don't have bugs, they just develop random features.
Anonymous
The cheapest, fastest, and most reliable components are those that aren't there.
Gordon Bell
It's not what the software does. It's what the user does.
Hugh Macleod
When someone says "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I wish done," give him a lollipop.
Alan J. Perlis
The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague.
Edsger Dijkstra
In computing, invariants are ephemeral.
Alan J. Perlis
Good enough is neither.
Jim Spivey