Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
if you are a programmer working in 2003 and you don't know the basics of characters, character sets, encodings, and Unicode, and I catch you, I'm going to punish you by making you peel onions for 6 months in a submarine.
Joel Spolsky
Optimization hinders evolution.
Alan J. Perlis
People who think, "Oh this is a one-off," need to be offed, or perhaps politely removed from the project.
George Neville-Neil
The best things are simple, but finding these simple things is not simple.
Anonymous
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Leonardo da Vinci
I'll try to be nicer if you try to be smarter.
Assaf Nitzan
C: a language that combines all the elegance and power of assembly language with all the readability and maintainability of assembly language.
Anonymous
There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed.
Bill Gates
Linux is only free if your time has no value.
Jamie Zawinski
In essence, let the market design the product.
Paul Graham