Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Java is a DSL to transform big Xml documents into long exception stack traces.
Scott Bellware
If it works, leave it alone — there's no need to understand it. If it fails, try to fix it — there's no time to understand it.
Bill Pfeifer
Software with no bugs is obsolete.
Anonymous
If it doesn't work, it doesn't matter how fast it doesn't work.
Ravera's observation on premature optimization
We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil.
Donald Knuth
You have to "solve" the problem once in order to clearly define it and then solve it again to create a solution that works.
Anonymous
The sooner we start coding fewer frameworks and more programs the sooner we’ll become better programmers.
Warped Java Guy Elementary Java Solutions
When we understand knowledge-based systems, it will be as before -- except our fingertips will have been singed.
Alan J. Perlis
The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.
Robert R. Coveyou, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.
Dave Parnas