Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
People who deal with bits should expect to get bitten.
Jon Bentley
Code reuse is the Holy Grail of Software Engineering.
Douglas Crockford
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
Hanlon's Razor
Optimization hinders evolution.
Alan J. Perlis
Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
Alan J. Perlis
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Antoine de Saint Exupéry
If our customers wanted a product that worked that way, tell them to purchase a product that works that way.
Anonymous
The sooner we start coding fewer frameworks and more programs the sooner we’ll become better programmers.
Warped Java Guy Elementary Java Solutions
Debugging is anticipated with distaste, performed with reluctance, and bragged about forever.
Dan Kaminsky
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