Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
One Page Principle: A specification that will not fit on one page of 8.5x11 inch paper cannot be understood.
Mark Ardis
The goal of Computer Science is to build something that will last at least until we've finished building it.
Anonymous
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Sir Arthur C Clarke
Programming can be fun, so can cryptography; however they should not be combined.
Kreitzberg and Shneiderman
Java. The elegant simplicity of C++. The blazing speed of Smalltalk.
Anonymous
Documentation is like sex. When it's good, it's fantastic. When it's bad, it's still better than nothing.
Anonymous
C++ is an horrible language. Even if the choice of C were to do *nothing* but keep the C++ programmers out, that in itself would be a huge reason to use C.
Linus Torvalds
In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
Alan J. Perlis
Java is a DSL to transform big Xml documents into long exception stack traces.
Scott Bellware
The cheapest, fastest, and most reliable components are those that aren't there.
Gordon Bell