Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If you want to confuse your enemies, give them the source code. If you want to really confuse them, give them the documentation.
Anonymous
You can't eliminate problems, but you can make trades to get problems that you prefer over the ones you have now.
Eric Sink’s Axiom of Software Development
Saying that Java is good because it works on all platforms is like saying anal sex is good because it works on all genders.
Anonymous
Multi-threading is the art of screwing things up before, during or after something else.
Anonymous
In C, its easy to shoot yourself in the foot. C++ makes it more difficult, but when you do, you'll blow your whole leg off.
Stroustrup
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
Good design adds value faster than it adds cost.
Thomas C. Gale
Fast, Cheap, Reliable: Pick any two.
Anonymous
You can't solve social problems through technical means.
Anonymous
We have the mini and the micro computer. In what semantic niche would the pico computer fall?
Alan J. Perlis