Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Good architecture is necessary to give programs enough structure to be able to grow large without collapsing into a puddle of confusion.
Douglas Crockford
If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.
Cicero
The C Programming Language — A language which combines the flexibility of assembly language with the power of assembly language.
Anonymous
C++ is an horrible language. Even if the choice of C were to do *nothing* but keep the C++ programmers out, that in itself would be a huge reason to use C.
Linus Torvalds
You can't solve social problems through technical means.
Anonymous
God could create the world in six days because he didn't have to make it compatible with the previous version.
Anonymous
To iterate is human, to recurse divine.
L. Peter Deutsch
The eleventh commandment was "Thou Shalt Compute" or "Thou Shalt Not Compute" - I forget which.
Alan J. Perlis
The only valid measurement of code quality: WTFs / minute
Thom Holwerda
Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use regular expressions." Now they have two problems.
Jamie Zawinski