Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Web Development is a lot like kickboxing: You have to watch your cookies.
Anonymous
If you lie to the compiler, it will get its revenge.
Henry Spencere
A good programmer looks both ways before crossing a one-way street.
Anonymous
FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed — it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.
Alan J. Perlis
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
Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing until it gets there.
Josh Billings
Perl - The only language that looks the same before and after RSA encryption.
Keith Bostic
The goal is to deliver clean code that works - now.
Kent Beck
Elegance is not optional.
Richard A. O'Keefe (from The Craft of Prolog)
Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter.
Eric Raymond