Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Java is a DSL to transform big Xml documents into long exception stack traces.
Scott Bellware
Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to see it as a soap bubble?
Alan J. Perlis
The goal of Computer Science is to build something that will last at least until we've finished building it.
Anonymous
Within a computer natural language is unnatural.
Alan J. Perlis
Team debugging: the act of intimidating a PC into doing for two people what it refuses to do for one.
Anonymous
Python's syntax succeeds in combining the mistakes of Lisp and Fortran. I do not construe that as progress.
Larry Wall
Are you quite sure that all those bells and whistles, all those wonderful facilities of your so called powerful programming languages, belong to the solution set rather than the problem set?
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Processes and methodologies can make good servants but are poor masters.
Mark Dowd, John McDonald & Justin Schuh
Around computers it is difficult to find the correct unit of time to measure progress. Some cathedrals took a century to complete. Can you imagine the grandeur and scope of a program that would take as long?
Alan J. Perlis
When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
R. Buckminster Fuller