Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
Pablo Picasso
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
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
Make it correct,
Wes Dyer
make it clear,
make it concise,
make it fast.
In that order.
Documentation is like sex. When it's good, it's fantastic. When it's bad, it's still better than nothing.
Anonymous
Software and cathedrals are much the same - first we build them, then we pray.
Anonymous
The difference between theory and practice is smaller in theory than in practice.
Anonymous
I think there's a world market for about five computers.
Thomas J Watson Senior, 1945
There are only two hard problems in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.
Phil Karlton
Java is a DSL to transform big Xml documents into long exception stack traces.
Scott Bellware