Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
We kid ourselves if we think that the ratio of procedure to data in an active data-base system can be made arbitrarily small or even kept small.
Alan J. Perlis
I've never written the best code I've ever written.
Anonymous
Multitasking is the art of distracting yourself from two things you’d rather not be doing by doing them simultaneously.
Anonymous
XML is like violence - if it's not working for you, you're not using enough of it.
Anonymous
The only valid measurement of code quality: WTFs / minute
Thom Holwerda
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that it's all learned.
Bruce Ediger
Make it correct,
Wes Dyer
make it clear,
make it concise,
make it fast.
In that order.
Blame doesn't fix bugs.
Anonymous
An adequate bootstrap is a contradiction in terms.
Alan J. Perlis
Pasting code from the Internet into production code is like chewing gum found in the street.
Anonymous