Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The sooner we start coding fewer frameworks and more programs the sooner we’ll become better programmers.
Warped Java Guy Elementary Java Solutions
A startup now can be just a pair of 22 year old guys. A company like that can move much more easily than one with 10 people, half of whom have kids.
Paul Graham
One Page Principle: A specification that will not fit on one page of 8.5x11 inch paper cannot be understood.
Mark Ardis
It makes no sense to try to do what we can. We must do what is necessary.
Winston Churchill
Let the code run free, if it needs to be debugged, it will come back.
Anonymous
To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer.
Paul Ehrlich
He who hasn't hacked assembly language as a youth has no heart. He who does as an adult has no brain.
John Moore
You want a dot operator in PHP?
Matthew Leffler
eval(str_replace('.', '->', $code_with_dot_operator))
Elegance is not optional.
Richard A. O'Keefe (from The Craft of Prolog)
Theory is when you know something, but it doesn't work. Practice is when something works, but you don't know why. Programmers combine theory and practice: Nothing works and they don't know why.
Anonymous