Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If you can build it, your users can break it.
Anonymous
The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.
Oswald Chambers
KISS - Keep It Simple Stupid
Anonymous
If our customers wanted a product that worked that way, tell them to purchase a product that works that way.
Anonymous
If you require information, do not free memory containing the information.
MSDN
One can only display complex information in the mind. Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.
Alan J. Perlis
Going from programming in Pascal to programming in C, is like learning to write in Morse code.
J.P. Candusso
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
Software is under a constant tension. Being symbolic it is arbitrarily perfectible; but also it is arbitrarily changeable.
Alan J. Perlis
One does not learn computing by using a hand calculator, but one can forget arithmetic.
Alan J. Perlis