Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
I finally found a definition for "middleware". "Middleware" is the software nobody wants to pay for.
Chris Stone
All problems in computer science can be solved with another level of indirection.
David Wheeler
The goal is to deliver clean code that works - now.
Kent Beck
A computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things. They are, in short, a perfect match.
Bill Bryson
The best thing about a boolean is even if you are wrong, you are only off by a bit.
Anonymous
Symmetry is a complexity-reducing concept (co-routines include subroutines); seek it everywhere.
Alan J. Perlis
C++ is to C as Lung Cancer is to Lung.
Anonymous
If we're supposed to work in Hex, why have we only got A fingers?
Anonymous
In essence, let the market design the product.
Paul Graham
It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all...
Larry Wall