Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.
Clark's law
XML is like violence - if it's not working for you, you're not using enough of it.
Anonymous
True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read.
Pliny the Elder
If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
Alan J. Perlis
Your code is both good and original. Unfortunately the parts that are good are not original, and the parts that are original are not good.
Anonymous
Real Programmers don't comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand.
Anonymous
Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction: One, it's completely impossible. Two, it's possible, but it's not worth doing. Three, I said it was a good idea all along.
Arthur C. Clarke
Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.
Brian Kernighan
Java. The elegant simplicity of C++. The blazing speed of Smalltalk.
Anonymous
I think there's a world market for about five computers.
Thomas J Watson Senior, 1945