Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration.
Stan Kelly-Bootle
True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read.
Pliny the Elder
Process is no substitute for synaptic activity.
Jeff DeLuca
Processes and methodologies can make good servants but are poor masters.
Mark Dowd, John McDonald & Justin Schuh
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
Pablo Picasso
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
Alan J. Perlis
Any fool can use a computer. Many do.
Ted Nelson
The key to performance is elegance, not battalions of special cases.
Jon Bentley and Doug McIlroy
Mostly, when you see programmers, they aren't doing anything. One of the attractive things about programmers is that you cannot tell whether or not they are working simply by looking at them. Very often they're sitting there seemingly drinking coffee and gossiping, or just staring into space. What the programmer is trying to do is get a handle on all the individual and unrelated ideas that are scampering around in his head.
Charles M Strauss
Programmers usually have good reasons for making bad decisions.
Anonymous