Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The whole HTML validation exercise is questionable, but validating as XHTML is flat-out masochism. Only recommended for those that enjoy pain. Or programmers. I can't always tell the difference.
Jeff Atwood
My assertion that we can do better with computer languages is a persistent belief and fond hope, but you'll note I don't actually claim to be either rational or right. Except when it's convenient.
Larry Wall
The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.
Larry Wall
Java is to JavaScript what Car is to Carpet.
Chris Heilmann
What I cannot build, I do not understand.
Richard Feynman
The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.
Oswald Chambers
The Internet? Is that thing still around?
Homer Simpson
The idea that I can be presented with a problem, set out to logically solve it with the tools at hand, and wind up with a program that could not be legally used because someone else followed the same logical steps some years ago and filed for a patent on it is horrifying.
John Carmack on software patents
They won't tell you that they don't understand it; they will happily invent their way through the gaps and obscurities.
V.A. Vyssotsky on software programmers and their views on specifications
Team debugging: the act of intimidating a PC into doing for two people what it refuses to do for one.
Anonymous