Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The key to performance is elegance, not battalions of special cases.
Jon Bentley and Doug McIlroy
The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Deleted code is debugged code.
Jeff Sickel
Programmers usually have good reasons for making bad decisions.
Anonymous
The latest new features in C++ are designed to fix the previously new features in C++.
David Jameson
Good web applications should look like trifle.
Cal Henderson
Anything that can go wrong will go wrong, anything that can't go wrong will go wrong anyway.
Anonymous
Any technology that surpasses 50% penetration will never double again (in any number of months).
Peter Norvig's law
Think of compilation as cooking. Dynamic typing means the steak is juicy and still a little red, like red meat is supposed to be. Static typing means you burnt it to a crisp.
Erik Naggum
Any sufficiently well-documented lisp program contains an ML program in its comments.
Anonymous