Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.
Albert Einstein
What happens in the mind of a fine artist is nothing different from that going on in the mind of an expert coder. Both see and thrive in the quintessential nature of patterns.
Lawrence Mucheka
You want a dot operator in PHP?
Matthew Leffler
eval(str_replace('.', '->', $code_with_dot_operator))
In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can't.
Alan J. Perlis
Confidence, n.: The feeling you have before you understand the situation.
Anonymous
Compatibility means deliberately repeating other people's mistakes.
Anonymous
Optimization hinders evolution.
Alan J. Perlis
People who think, "Oh this is a one-off," need to be offed, or perhaps politely removed from the project.
George Neville-Neil
A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any other invention in human history, with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.
Mitch Ratcliffe
Every dark corner you haven't explored with your flashlight is full of bugs.
Kent Beck and Martin Fowler