Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The computer is the ultimate polluter: its feces are indistinguish- able from the food it produces.
Alan J. Perlis
The third version is the first version that doesn't suck.
Mike Simpson
Inside every complex program is a simple program trying to get out.
Anonymous
Singleton is a misconcept in OOP unless it's used as a misconcepted paradigm for application development.
Anonymous
A programmer that is 10 times better than another will probably be happy making only 3 times as much.
Paul Graham
Whereas Europeans generally pronounce my name the right way ('Nick-louse Veert'), Americans invariably mangle it into 'Nickel's Worth.' This is to say that Europeans call me by name, but Americans call me by value.
Niklaus Wirth
Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.
George S. Patton
I get as much enjoyment from trashing code as I do from scratching it out in the first place!
Anonymous
This is important, and a little hard to understand. English is useful because it's a mess. Since English is a mess, it maps well onto the problem space, which is also a mess, which we call reality. Similarly, Perl was designed to be a mess (though in the nicest of possible ways).
Larry Wall
A programmer never dies he just degrades gracefully.
Anonymous