Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
XML is like violence - if it's not working for you, you're not using enough of it.
Anonymous
If you get it free, it is worthless. If you pay for it, it has value. If you build it yourself, it is priceless.
Raj More
Interfaces keep things tidy, but don't accelerate growth: Functions do.
Alan J. Perlis
Simplicity - the art of maximizing the amount of work not done - is essential.
Agile Manifesto
Programmers usually have good reasons for making bad decisions.
Anonymous
Like wine, the mastery of programming matures with time. But, unlike wine, it gets sweeter in the process.
Lawrence Mucheka
If it works, leave it alone — there's no need to understand it. If it fails, try to fix it — there's no time to understand it.
Bill Pfeifer
C: a language that combines all the elegance and power of assembly language with all the readability and maintainability of assembly language.
Anonymous
In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word "frustration".
Alan J. Perlis
Software and cathedrals are much the same - first we build them, then we pray.
Anonymous