Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
An adequate bootstrap is a contradiction in terms.
Alan J. Perlis
When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.
Pablo Picasso
Computers don't introduce order anywhere as much as they expose opportunities.
Alan J. Perlis
Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.
George S. Patton
Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.
Martin Fowler
There are 10 types of people in the world, those who can read binary, and those who can't.
Anonymous
In the good old days physicists repeated each other's experiments, just to be sure. Today they stick to FORTRAN, so that they can share each other's programs, bugs included.
Edsger W. Dijkstra
The best writing is rewriting.
E. B. White
The whole HTML validation exercise is questionable, but validating as XHTML is flat-out masochism. Only recommended for those that enjoy pain. Or programmers. I can't always tell the difference.
Jeff Atwood
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
Vincent van Gogh