Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
They won't tell you that they don't understand it; they will happily invent their way through the gaps and obscurities.
V.A. Vyssotsky on software programmers and their views on specifications
Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them.
Alan J. Perlis
Whereas Europeans generally pronounce my name the right way ('Nick-louse Veert'), Americans invariably mangle it into 'Nickel's Worth.' This is to say that Europeans call me by name, but Americans call me by value.
Niklaus Wirth
If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?
John Wooden, basketball coach
When a professional race car driver races, his pulse gets lower and he relaxes.
Jun-ichiro Hagino
When I code it is the same thing.
Java is a DSL to transform big Xml documents into long exception stack traces.
Scott Bellware
If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution.
Robert Sewell
Just don't create a file called -rf.
Larry Wall
Good design adds value faster than it adds cost.
Thomas C. Gale
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that it's all learned.
Bruce Ediger