Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The future will be like the past, because in the past the future was like the past.
About estimations
From a programmer's point of view, the user is a peripheral that types when you issue a read request.
Peter Williams
Code never lies, comments sometimes do.
Ron Jeffries
I'll try to be nicer if you try to be smarter.
Assaf Nitzan
Never underestimate the disparity between developer excitement and user apathy.
Anonymous
It takes an intelligent person to build something complex; it takes a genius to build something simple.
Anonymous
The use of a program to prove the 4-color theorem will not change mathematics - it merely demonstrates that the theorem, a challenge for a century, is probably not important to mathematics.
Alan J. Perlis
When a professional race car driver races, his pulse gets lower and he relaxes.
Jun-ichiro Hagino
When I code it is the same thing.
Purely applicative languages are poorly applicable.
Alan J. Perlis
The primary duty of an exception handler is to get the error out of the lap of the programmer and into the surprised face of the user. Provided you keep this cardinal rule in mind, you can't go far wrong.
Verity Stob