Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
In seeking the unattainable, simplicity only gets in the way.
Alan J. Perlis
Whatever code we hack, be it programming language, poetic language, math or music, curves or colourings, we create the possibility of new things entering the world. Not always great things, or even good things, but new things.
McKenzie Wark in "A hacker Manifesto":02
It's OK to figure out murder mysteries, but you shouldn't need to figure out code. You should be able to read it.
Steve McConnell
If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough.
Alan Kay
C++ : Where friends have access to your private members.
Gavin Russell Baker
And don't tell me there isn't one bit of difference between null and space, because that's exactly how much difference there is.
Larry Wall
You can't eliminate problems, but you can make trades to get problems that you prefer over the ones you have now.
Eric Sink’s Axiom of Software Development
Code reuse is the Holy Grail of Software Engineering.
Douglas Crockford
C++ is an horrible language. Even if the choice of C were to do *nothing* but keep the C++ programmers out, that in itself would be a huge reason to use C.
Linus Torvalds
Web Development is a lot like kickboxing: You have to watch your cookies.
Anonymous