Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
One can't proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
Alan J. Perlis
Yes, sometimes Perl looks like line noise to the uninitiated, but to the seasoned Perl programmer, it looks like checksummed line noise with a mission in life.
Randal Schwartz
C++ : Where friends have access to your private members.
Gavin Russell Baker
Multitasking is the art of distracting yourself from two things you’d rather not be doing by doing them simultaneously.
Anonymous
Don't fix it if it ain't broke presupposes that you can't improve something that works reasonably well already. If the world's inventors had believed this, we'd still be driving Model A Fords and using outhouses.
H. W. Kenton
The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
Harlan Ellison
Beware of the Turing tar-pit in which everything is possible but nothing of interest is easy.
Alan J. Perlis
90% of everything is crap
Sturgeon's Revelation
Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls must dive down below.
John Dryden
KISS - Keep It Simple Stupid
Anonymous