Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Good judgement is the result of experience ... Experience is the result of bad judgement.
Fred Brooks
If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.
Robert X. Cringely
There will always be things we wish to say in our programs that in all known languages can only be said poorly.
Alan J. Perlis
Java is like a variant of the game of Tetris in which none of the pieces can fill gaps created by the other pieces, so all you can do is pile them up endlessly.
Steve Yegge
I hate code, and I want as little of it in our product as possible.
Jack Diederich
You’ll spend far more time babysitting old technologies than implementing new ones.
Jason Hiner IT Dirty Secrets
[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
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
Alan J. Perlis
So many good ideas are never heard from again once they embark in a voyage on the semantic gulf.
Alan J. Perlis
The function name should define everything the function does.
Anonymous