Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
There are 10 types of people in the world, those who can read binary, and those who can't.
Anonymous
To most Java developers, Ruby/Rails is like a mistress. Ruby/Rails is young, new, and exciting; but eventually we go back to old faithful, dependable, and employable Java with some new tricks and idioms and we are the better programmer for it.
Juixe TechKnow
Arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
Alan Kay
When we write programs that "learn", it turns out that we do and they don't.
Alan J. Perlis
The first 90% of the code accounts for the first 90% of the development time. The remaining 10% of the code accounts for the other 90% of the development time.
Tom Cargill
Around computers it is difficult to find the correct unit of time to measure progress. Some cathedrals took a century to complete. Can you imagine the grandeur and scope of a program that would take as long?
Alan J. Perlis
No code is faster than no code.
Anonymous
Only Half of programming is coding. The other 90% is debugging.
Anonymous
Saying that Java is good because it works on all platforms is like saying anal sex is good because it works on all genders.
Anonymous
It takes an intelligent person to build something complex; it takes a genius to build something simple.
Anonymous