Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
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
It is not a language's weakness but its strengths that control the gradient of its change: Alas, a language never escapes its embryonic sac.
Alan J. Perlis
Nothing is more permanent than a temporary solution.
Thomas' First Law
Real Programmers don't comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand.
Anonymous
Fight code entropy.
John Carmack
Never trust a programmer in a suit.
Anonymous
A programmer that is 10 times better than another will probably be happy making only 3 times as much.
Paul Graham
Enlightened trial and error outperforms the planning of flawless intellects.
David Kelly
In my experience, one of the most significant problems in software development is assuming. If you assume a method will passed the right parameter value, the method will fail.
Paul M. Duvall
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Anonymous