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
I (...) am rarely happier than when spending an entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that would otherwise take me a good ten seconds to do by hand.
Douglas Adams
A programmer started to cuss
Anonymous
Because getting to sleep was a fuss
As he lay there in bed
Looping 'round in his head
was: while(!asleep()) sheep++;
I Hate Programming.
Anonymous
I Hate Programming.
I Hate Programming.
It works!
I Love Programming.
Test driven development is like eating watermelon. Slice it up and work in sections at a time; eat all the red until all you have left is green.
Terry L Thompson
[Perl] combines all the worst aspects of C and Lisp: a billion different sublanguages in one monolithic executable. It combines the power of C with the readability of PostScript.
Jamie Zawinski
In a world without walls and fences, who needs Windows and Gates?
Anonymous
Symmetry is a complexity-reducing concept (co-routines include subroutines); seek it everywhere.
Alan J. Perlis
The key to performance is elegance, not battalions of special cases.
Jon Bentley and Doug McIlroy
Good programmers learn more from "That's not what I expected!" than from getting it right the first time.
Anonymous