Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
When in doubt, leave it out.
Joshua Bloch
In My Egotistical Opinion, most people's C programs should be indented six feet downward and covered with dirt.
Blair P. Houghton
The string is a stark data structure and everywhere it is passed there is much duplication of process. It is a perfect vehicle for hiding information.
Alan J. Perlis
Elegance is not optional.
Richard A. O'Keefe (from The Craft of Prolog)
You have to "solve" the problem once in order to clearly define it and then solve it again to create a solution that works.
Anonymous
Computers don't introduce order anywhere as much as they expose opportunities.
Alan J. Perlis
If you've seen one picture of the Mandelbrot Set, you've seen them all.
Bill Karwin
Talk is cheap, show me the code!
Linus Torvalds
Programming can be fun, so can cryptography; however they should not be combined.
Kreitzberg and Shneiderman
There are only two industries that refer to their customers as users: the computer industry and the drug trade.
Edward Tufte