Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
This is important, and a little hard to understand. English is useful because it's a mess. Since English is a mess, it maps well onto the problem space, which is also a mess, which we call reality. Similarly, Perl was designed to be a mess (though in the nicest of possible ways).
Larry Wall
XML is like violence - if it's not working for you, you're not using enough of it.
Anonymous
If it doesn't work, change the documentation.
Anonymous
Fifty years of programming language research, and we end up with C++ ?
Richard A. O'Keefe
I went to school to learn how to program software applications, which inevitably have bug defects. There was no course at my university on testing, debugging, profiling, or optimization. These things you have to learn on your own, usually in a tight deadline.
Juixe TechKnow
Code is never finished, only abandoned.
Anonymous
A documented bug is not a bug; it is a feature.
James P. MacLennan
Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
Alan Kay
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
Alan J. Perlis
How do we convince people that in programming simplicity and clarity —in short: what mathematicians call "elegance"— are not a dispensable luxury, but a crucial matter that decides between success and failure?
Edsger W. Dijkstra