Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
It can scarcely be denied that the supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a single datum of experience.
Albert Einstein
The Internet? Is that thing still around?
Homer Simpson
Python's syntax succeeds in combining the mistakes of Lisp and Fortran. I do not construe that as progress.
Larry Wall
An idiot with a computer is a faster, better idiot.
Rich Julius
"It depends" is the answer to all good software engineering questions, but to be a good software engineer, you should know on what it depends, and why.
Anonymous
Sometimes, the elegant implementation is just a function. Not a method. Not a class. Not a framework. Just a function.
John Carmack
Computers are getting smarter all the time. Scientists tell us that soon they will be able to talk to us. (And by 'they', I mean 'computers'. I doubt scientists will ever be able to talk to us.)
Dave Barry
Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
Alan J. Perlis
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.
Anonymous
Think of compilation as cooking. Dynamic typing means the steak is juicy and still a little red, like red meat is supposed to be. Static typing means you burnt it to a crisp.
Erik Naggum