Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If we'd asked the customers what they wanted, they would have said "faster horses".
Henry Ford
When all you have is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail.
Anonymous
Enlightened trial and error outperforms the planning of flawless intellects.
David Kelly
You want a dot operator in PHP?
Matthew Leffler
eval(str_replace('.', '->', $code_with_dot_operator))
If it doesn't work, it doesn't matter how fast it doesn't work.
Ravera's observation on premature optimization
It is easier to port a shell than a shell script.
Larry Wall
You can stand on the shoulders of giants OR a big enough pile of dwarfs, works either way.
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
Java. The elegant simplicity of C++. The blazing speed of Smalltalk.
Anonymous
Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.
Andy Rooney