Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going on to be scared.
P. J. Plauger
The Floppy Disk Icon means "save" for a whole generation of people who have never seen one.
Scott Hanselman
The function of good software is to make the complex appear to be simple.
Grady Booch
Computation has made the tree flower.
Alan J. Perlis
Interfaces keep things tidy, but don't accelerate growth: Functions do.
Alan J. Perlis
Compatibility means deliberately repeating other people's mistakes.
Anonymous
And don't tell me there isn't one bit of difference between null and space, because that's exactly how much difference there is.
Larry Wall
If you've seen one picture of the Mandelbrot Set, you've seen them all.
Bill Karwin
Remember, a great way to avoid broken code is to have less of it. The code that you never write will work forever.
Russ Olsen
...basically, avoid comments. If your code needs a comment to be understood, it would be better to rewrite it so it's easier to understand.
Rob Pike