Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
To most Java developers, Ruby/Rails is like a mistress. Ruby/Rails is young, new, and exciting; but eventually we go back to old faithful, dependable, and employable Java with some new tricks and idioms and we are the better programmer for it.
Juixe TechKnow
We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat's next-to-last theorem.
Alan J. Perlis
Good programmers invest the effort to learn how to use current practices. Not-so-good programmers just learn the buzzwords, and that’s been a software industry constant for a half century.
Boris Beizer
It takes an intelligent person to build something complex; it takes a genius to build something simple.
Anonymous
The future will be like the past, because in the past the future was like the past.
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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
Alan J. Perlis
It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than 10 functions on 10 data structures.
Alan J. Perlis
It is often easier to not do something dumb than it is to do something smart.
Anonymous
In software, the most beautiful code, the most beautiful functions, and the most beautiful programs are sometimes not there at all.
Jon Bentley
I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone.
Bjarne Stroustrup