Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
It takes an intelligent person to build something complex; it takes a genius to build something simple.
Anonymous
Java is C++ without the guns, knives, and clubs.
James Gosling
[The common definition of estimate is] "An estimate is the most optimistic prediction that has a non-zero probability of coming true" . . .
Tom DeMarco
Accepting this definition leads irrevocably toward a method called what's-the-earliest- date-by-which-you-can't-prove-you-won't-be- finished estimating.
You want a dot operator in PHP?
Matthew Leffler
eval(str_replace('.', '->', $code_with_dot_operator))
There are only two hard problems in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.
Phil Karlton
Only Half of programming is coding. The other 90% is debugging.
Anonymous
Going from programming in Pascal to programming in C, is like learning to write in Morse code.
J.P. Candusso
Debugging is anticipated with distaste, performed with reluctance, and bragged about forever.
Dan Kaminsky
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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