Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The greatest performance improvement of all is when a system goes from not-working to working.
John Ousterhout
I would love to change the world, but they won't give me the source code.
Anonymous
An ideal world is left as an exercise to the reader.
From Paul Graham's "On Lisp"
Web Development is a lot like kickboxing: You have to watch your cookies.
Anonymous
if you are a programmer working in 2003 and you don't know the basics of characters, character sets, encodings, and Unicode, and I catch you, I'm going to punish you by making you peel onions for 6 months in a submarine.
Joel Spolsky
The difference between theory and practice is smaller in theory than in practice.
Anonymous
C is to programming as Latin is to literature.
Anonymous
Java is a DSL to transform big Xml documents into long exception stack traces.
Scott Bellware
If you can't explain something to a six-year-old, you really don't understand it yourself.
Albert Einstein
When a programming language is created that allows programmers to program in simple English, it will be discovered that programmers cannot speak English.
Anonymous