Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
It is easier to optimize correct code than to correct optimized code.
Anonymous
XML is like violence - if it's not working for you, you're not using enough of it.
Anonymous
Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration.
Stan Kelly-Bootle
All problems in computer science can be solved with another level of indirection.
David Wheeler
The debate rages on: is PL/I Bachtrian or Dromedary?
Alan J. Perlis
Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls must dive down below.
John Dryden
Structured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.
Alan J. Perlis
The only valid measurement of code quality: WTFs / minute
Thom Holwerda
We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.
Larry Wall
C is to programming as Latin is to literature.
Anonymous