Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The best things are simple, but finding these simple things is not simple.
Anonymous
Multitasking is the art of distracting yourself from two things you’d rather not be doing by doing them simultaneously.
Anonymous
Like a gas, software expands to fill its containing memory completely.
Anonymous
C trades a slap on the wrist at compile time for a knife in the back at run time.
Anonymous
Testing like the TSA.
David Heinemeier Hansson on testing too much
I get as much enjoyment from trashing code as I do from scratching it out in the first place!
Anonymous
[Perl] combines all the worst aspects of C and Lisp: a billion different sublanguages in one monolithic executable. It combines the power of C with the readability of PostScript.
Jamie Zawinski
I think Microsoft named .Net so it wouldn't show up in a Unix directory listing.
Oktal
Java is C++ without the guns, knives, and clubs.
James Gosling
An ideal world is left as an exercise to the reader.
From Paul Graham's "On Lisp"