Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use regular expressions." Now they have two problems.
Jamie Zawinski
Arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
Alan Kay
It's interface, not in your face.
Kai Krause
Every language has an optimization operator. In C++ that operator is ‘//’
Anonymous
I will not be a lemming and follow the crowd over the cliff and into the C.
John Beidler
if you are a programmer working in 2003 and you don't know the basics of characters, character sets, encodings, and Unicode, and I catch you, I'm going to punish you by making you peel onions for 6 months in a submarine.
Joel Spolsky
It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.
Alan J. Perlis
They have computers, and they may have other weapons of mass destruction.
Janet Reno
In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word "frustration".
Alan J. Perlis
When in doubt, leave it out.
Joshua Bloch