Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
When you want to do something differently from the rest of the world, it's a good idea to look into whether the rest of the world knows something you don't.
Anonymous
XML is like violence - if it's not working for you, you're not using enough of it.
Anonymous
Sometimes I think the only universal in the computing field is the fetch-execute cycle.
Alan J. Perlis
Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases.
Anonymous
God could create the world in six days because he didn't have to make it compatible with the previous version.
Anonymous
If you're going to break it, then break it good. Break everything. Get to the very front of the line. Don't like move up a couple of slots. That's pointless.
Anders Hejlsberg
The proof of a system's value is its existence.
Alan J. Perlis
Computers are getting smarter all the time. Scientists tell us that soon they will be able to talk to us. (And by 'they', I mean 'computers'. I doubt scientists will ever be able to talk to us.)
Dave Barry
Fast, Cheap, Reliable: Pick any two.
Anonymous
All real programmers know C of course.
Jeff Atwood
Any code of your own that you haven't looked at for six or more months might as well have been written by someone else.
Eagleson's Law