Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Giving pointers and threads to programmers is like giving whisky and car keys to teenagers.
P. J. O'Rourke
Theory is when you know something, but it doesn't work. Practice is when something works, but you don't know why. Programmers combine theory and practice: Nothing works and they don't know why.
Anonymous
Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written, and another for which it wasn't.
Alan J. Perlis
An ideal world is left as an exercise to the reader.
From Paul Graham's "On Lisp"
Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.
Clark's law
Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.
Jamie Zawinski
The cheapest, fastest, and most reliable components are those that aren't there.
Gordon Bell
First, solve the problem. Then, write the code.
John Johnson
For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
H L Mencken
Sure, it's overkill. But you can never have too much overkill...
Anonymous