Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The cybernetic exchange between man, computer and algorithm is like a game of musical chairs: The frantic search for balance always leaves one of the three standing ill at ease.
Alan J. Perlis
Engineering is the art of doing with one dollar what any damn fool can do with two.
From Space Systems Failures by David M. Harland and Ralph D. Lorenz
For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
H L Mencken
The eleventh commandment was "Thou Shalt Compute" or "Thou Shalt Not Compute" - I forget which.
Alan J. Perlis
The key to performance is elegance, not battalions of special cases.
Jon Bentley and Doug McIlroy
Think of it this way: threads are like salt, not like pasta. You like salt, I like salt, we all like salt. But we eat more pasta.
Larry McVoy
A programmer never dies he just degrades gracefully.
Anonymous
Lines of code are only worth counting, when time has come to delete them.
Anonymous
Singleton is a misconcept in OOP unless it's used as a misconcepted paradigm for application development.
Anonymous
Good software, like wine, takes time.
Joel Spolsky