Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Antoine de Saint Exupéry
Never underestimate the disparity between developer excitement and user apathy.
Anonymous
Engineering is the art of doing with one dollar what any damn fool can do with two.
From Space Systems Failures by David M. Harland and Ralph D. Lorenz
Brevity is the soul of wit.
Shakespeare
Sometimes I think the only universal in the computing field is the fetch-execute cycle.
Alan J. Perlis
To most Java developers, Ruby/Rails is like a mistress. Ruby/Rails is young, new, and exciting; but eventually we go back to old faithful, dependable, and employable Java with some new tricks and idioms and we are the better programmer for it.
Juixe TechKnow
It is the user who should parameterize procedures, not their creators.
Alan J. Perlis
In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
Alan J. Perlis
There's more than one way to do it.
Larry Wall about Perl
XML is like violence - if it's not working for you, you're not using enough of it.
Anonymous