Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
XML is like violence - if it's not working for you, you're not using enough of it.
Anonymous
When a programming language is created that allows programmers to program in simple English, it will be discovered that programmers cannot speak English.
Anonymous
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
The word “experienced” often refers to someone who’s gotten away with doing the wrong thing more frequently than you have.
Laurence Gonzales
God did not create the world in seven days; for six days he screwed around and then pulled an all-nighter.
Anonymous
The computer is the ultimate polluter: its feces are indistinguish- able from the food it produces.
Alan J. Perlis
This is important, and a little hard to understand. English is useful because it's a mess. Since English is a mess, it maps well onto the problem space, which is also a mess, which we call reality. Similarly, Perl was designed to be a mess (though in the nicest of possible ways).
Larry Wall
When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
Alan J. Perlis
Before software should be reusable, it should be usable.
Ralph Johnson
Motto for a research laboratory: What we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
Alan J. Perlis