Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
We kid ourselves if we think that the ratio of procedure to data in an active data-base system can be made arbitrarily small or even kept small.
Alan J. Perlis
Arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
Alan Kay
Web Development is a lot like kickboxing: You have to watch your cookies.
Anonymous
It takes an intelligent person to build something complex; it takes a genius to build something simple.
Anonymous
All programs have at least one bug remaining and can be optimized by one byte. Thus, by mathematical induction, all programs can be reduced to one byte. And it won't work.
Anonymous
It is often easier to not do something dumb than it is to do something smart.
Anonymous
Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first, it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self-evident.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Software is either testable or detestable.
Anonymous
There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use.
Freeman Dyson
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MSDN