Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The goal is to deliver clean code that works - now.
Kent Beck
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction.
E.F. Schumacher
We kid ourselves if we think that the ratio of procedure to data in an active data-base system can be made arbitrarily small or even kept small.
Alan J. Perlis
When a professional race car driver races, his pulse gets lower and he relaxes.
Jun-ichiro Hagino
When I code it is the same thing.
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
Alan J. Perlis
Every dark corner you haven't explored with your flashlight is full of bugs.
Kent Beck and Martin Fowler
In my experience, one of the most significant problems in software development is assuming. If you assume a method will passed the right parameter value, the method will fail.
Paul M. Duvall
Prolonged contact with the computer turns mathematicians into clerks and vice versa.
Alan J. Perlis
There is not now, nor has there ever been, nor will there ever be, any programming language in which it is the least bit difficult to write bad code.
Anonymous
You want a dot operator in PHP?
Matthew Leffler
eval(str_replace('.', '->', $code_with_dot_operator))