Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Any sufficiently well-documented lisp program contains an ML program in its comments.
Anonymous
Good enough is neither.
Jim Spivey
Get into a rut early: Do the same process the same way. Accumulate idioms. Standardize. The only difference(!) between Shakespeare and you was the size of his idiom list - not the size of his vocabulary.
Alan J. Perlis
We better hurry up and start coding, there are going to be a lot of bugs to fix.
Anonymous
Deleted code is debugged code.
Jeff Sickel
Structured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.
Alan J. Perlis
You want a dot operator in PHP?
Matthew Leffler
eval(str_replace('.', '->', $code_with_dot_operator))
Software Engineering isn't rocket science ... it's harder.
Anonymous
Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
Alan Kay
Giving pointers and threads to programmers is like giving whisky and car keys to teenagers.
P. J. O'Rourke