Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The computer is the ultimate polluter: its feces are indistinguish- able from the food it produces.
Alan J. Perlis
People who deal with bits should expect to get bitten.
Jon Bentley
From a programmer's point of view, the user is a peripheral that types when you issue a read request.
Peter Williams
The sooner we start coding fewer frameworks and more programs the sooner we’ll become better programmers.
Warped Java Guy Elementary Java Solutions
If it works, leave it alone — there's no need to understand it. If it fails, try to fix it — there's no time to understand it.
Bill Pfeifer
Don't code today what you can't debug tomorrow
Anonymous
Any set of procedures, no matter how well intentioned or useful, that are too difficult to follow, will be circumvented.
Ravera's First Law of System Administration
You have to "solve" the problem once in order to clearly define it and then solve it again to create a solution that works.
Anonymous
The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
Harlan Ellison
Java is C++ without the guns, knives, and clubs.
James Gosling