Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If the code and the comments disagree, then both are probably wrong.
Anonymous
Web Development is a lot like kickboxing: You have to watch your cookies.
Anonymous
[Perl] combines all the worst aspects of C and Lisp: a billion different sublanguages in one monolithic executable. It combines the power of C with the readability of PostScript.
Jamie Zawinski
The greatest performance improvement of all is when a system goes from not-working to working.
John Ousterhout
Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction: One, it's completely impossible. Two, it's possible, but it's not worth doing. Three, I said it was a good idea all along.
Arthur C. Clarke
As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought.
Maurice Wilkes
I hate code, and I want as little of it in our product as possible.
Jack Diederich
The only constructive theory connecting neuroscience and psychology will arise from the study of software.
Alan J. Perlis
People who deal with bits should expect to get bitten.
Jon Bentley
Process is no substitute for synaptic activity.
Jeff DeLuca