Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Java is a DSL to transform big Xml documents into long exception stack traces.
Scott Bellware
There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use.
Freeman Dyson
I don't care if it works on your machine! We are not shipping your machine!
Ovidiu Platon
The real money isn't in the software. It's in the service you build with that software.
Jeff Atwood
Don't worry if it doesn't work right. If everything did, you'd be out of a job.
Mosher's Law of Software Engineering
The key to performance is elegance, not battalions of special cases.
Jon Bentley and Doug McIlroy
From a programmer's point of view, the user is a peripheral that types when you issue a read request.
Peter Williams
Systems have sub-systems and sub-systems have sub- systems and so on ad infinitum - which is why we're always starting over.
Alan J. Perlis
A logician trying to explain logic to a programmer is like a cat trying to explain to a fish what it's like to get wet.
Anonymous
It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all...
Larry Wall