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
You start writing code, I'll go see what the customer wants
Anonymous
If architects built houses the way programmers built programs, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization.
Gerald Weinberg
In a 5 year period we get one superb programming language. Only we can't control when the 5 year period will be.
Alan J. Perlis
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
Douglas Adams
Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written, and another for which it wasn't.
Alan J. Perlis
If you want to set off and go develop some grand new thing, you don't need millions of dollars of capitalization. You need enough pizza and Diet Coke to stick in your refrigerator, a cheap PC to work on and the dedication to go through with it.
John Carmack
There will always be things we wish to say in our programs that in all known languages can only be said poorly.
Alan J. Perlis
Only Half of programming is coding. The other 90% is debugging.
Anonymous
Lines of code are only worth counting, when time has come to delete them.
Anonymous