Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Your code is both good and original. Unfortunately the parts that are good are not original, and the parts that are original are not good.
Anonymous
Software isn't about methodologies, languages, or even operating systems. It is about working applications.
Christopher Baus
The whole HTML validation exercise is questionable, but validating as XHTML is flat-out masochism. Only recommended for those that enjoy pain. Or programmers. I can't always tell the difference.
Jeff Atwood
From a programmer's point of view, the user is a peripheral that types when you issue a read request.
Peter Williams
In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can't.
Alan J. Perlis
Hardware is the part of a system you can kick. Software is the one you can only curse at.
Anonymous
Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
Alan J. Perlis
When a programming language is created that allows programmers to program in simple English, it will be discovered that programmers cannot speak English.
Anonymous
The proof of a system's value is its existence.
Alan J. Perlis
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.
Anonymous