Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The cheapest, fastest, and most reliable components are those that aren't there.
Gordon Bell
Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.
Andy Rooney
The whole HTML validation exercise is questionable, but validating as XHTML is flat-out masochism. Only recommended for those that enjoy pain. Or programmers. I can't always tell the difference.
Jeff Atwood
For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
H L Mencken
If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?
John Wooden, basketball coach
When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
Alan J. Perlis
People who deal with bits should expect to get bitten.
Jon Bentley
Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls must dive down below.
John Dryden
Fifty years of programming language research, and we end up with C++ ?
Richard A. O'Keefe
Must be zero, or equal to MAPI_UNICODE. In either case, however, this parameter is ignored.
MSDN