Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
The sooner you get behind in your work, the more time you have to catch up.
Anonymous
There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
Alan J. Perlis
The only valid measurement of code quality: WTFs / minute
Thom Holwerda
Vi is a subset of evil.
Anonymous
PHP is a minor evil perpetrated and created by incompetent amateurs, whereas Perl is a great and insidious evil perpetrated by skilled but perverted professionals.
Jon Ribbens
... what society overwhelmingly asks for is snake oil. Of course, the snake oil has the most impressive names — otherwise you would be selling nothing — like "Structured Analysis and Design", "Software Engineering", "Maturity Models", "Management Information Systems", "Integrated Project Support Environments" "Object Orientation" and "Business Process Re-engineering" (the latter three being known as IPSE, OO and BPR, respectively).
Edsger W. Dijkstra
KISS - Keep It Simple Stupid
Anonymous
Fight code entropy.
John Carmack
If you can build it, your users can break it.
Anonymous