Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Over the centuries the Indians developed sign language for communicating phenomena of interest. Programmers from different tribes (FORTRAN, LISP, ALGOL, SNOBOL, etc.) could use one that doesn't require them to carry a blackboard on their ponies.
Alan J. Perlis
You can't eliminate problems, but you can make trades to get problems that you prefer over the ones you have now.
Eric Sink’s Axiom of Software Development
KISS - Keep It Simple Stupid
Anonymous
It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program. What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail and learning to be self-critical?
Alan J. Perlis
I would love to change the world, but they won't give me the source code.
Anonymous
Deleted code is debugged code.
Jeff Sickel
90% of everything is crap
Sturgeon's Revelation
A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing.
Alan J. Perlis
You want a dot operator in PHP?
Matthew Leffler
eval(str_replace('.', '->', $code_with_dot_operator))
Processes and methodologies can make good servants but are poor masters.
Mark Dowd, John McDonald & Justin Schuh