Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
A C program is like a fast dance on a newly waxed dance floor by people carrying razors.
Waldi Ravens
Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
Alan J. Perlis
Everyone can be taught to sculpt: Michelangelo would have had to be taught not to. So it is with great programmers.
Alan J. Perlis
If it doesn't work, change the documentation.
Anonymous
Working software is the primary measure of progress.
Agile Manifesto
Most people find the concept of programming obvious, but the doing impossible.
Alan J. Perlis
Java is a DSL to transform big Xml documents into long exception stack traces.
Scott Bellware
Complexity has nothing to do with intelligence, simplicity does.
Larry Bossidy
Recursion is the root of computation since it trades description for time.
Alan J. Perlis
Good architecture is necessary to give programs enough structure to be able to grow large without collapsing into a puddle of confusion.
Douglas Crockford