Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Design bugs are often subtle and occur by evolution with early assumptions being forgotten as new features or uses are added to a system.
Fernando J. Corbató
Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
Alan J. Perlis
You have to "solve" the problem once in order to clearly define it and then solve it again to create a solution that works.
Anonymous
For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
H L Mencken
Any set of procedures, no matter how well intentioned or useful, that are too difficult to follow, will be circumvented.
Ravera's First Law of System Administration
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
Prolonged contact with the computer turns mathematicians into clerks and vice versa.
Alan J. Perlis
Compatibility means deliberately repeating other people's mistakes.
Anonymous
My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going on to be scared.
P. J. Plauger
Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to rewrite (and reuse).
Eric Raymond