Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
[Perl] combines all the worst aspects of C and Lisp: a billion different sublanguages in one monolithic executable. It combines the power of C with the readability of PostScript.
Jamie Zawinski
It is often easier to not do something dumb than it is to do something smart.
Anonymous
If you've seen one picture of the Mandelbrot Set, you've seen them all.
Bill Karwin
"It depends" is the answer to all good software engineering questions, but to be a good software engineer, you should know on what it depends, and why.
Anonymous
Working software is the primary measure of progress.
Agile Manifesto
C++ : Where friends have access to your private members.
Gavin Russell Baker
Java is C++ without the guns, knives, and clubs.
James Gosling
Why did the Roman Empire collapse? What is Latin for office automation?
Alan J. Perlis
Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to see it as a soap bubble?
Alan J. Perlis
90% of everything is crap
Sturgeon's Revelation