Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.
Andy Rooney
In programming, everything we do is a special case of something more general -- and often we know it too quickly.
Alan J. Perlis
A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any other invention in human history, with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.
Mitch Ratcliffe
Any set of procedures, no matter how well intentioned or useful, that are too difficult to follow, will be circumvented.
Ravera's First Law of System Administration
The object-oriented model makes it easy to build up programs by accretion. What this often means, in practice, is that it provides a structured way to write spaghetti code.
Paul Graham
I finally found a definition for "middleware". "Middleware" is the software nobody wants to pay for.
Chris Stone
C++ : Where friends have access to your private members.
Gavin Russell Baker
Are you quite sure that all those bells and whistles, all those wonderful facilities of your so called powerful programming languages, belong to the solution set rather than the problem set?
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Tell me what you need and I'll tell you how to get along without it.
Anonymous
If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?
John Wooden, basketball coach