Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
I’ve finally learned what ‘upward compatible’ means. It means we get to keep all our old mistakes.
Dennie van Tassel
For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
H L Mencken
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
C++: an octopus made by nailing extra legs onto a dog.
Steve Taylor
Web Development is a lot like kickboxing: You have to watch your cookies.
Anonymous
When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Behind Every Successful Coder, there'an even more successful De-Coder to understand that Code.
Anonymous
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
Vincent van Gogh
Programming is not like being in the CIA; you don't get credit for being sneaky. It's more like advertising; you get lots of credit for making your connections as blatant as possible.
Steve McConnell on coupling from, "Code Complete."
They did not know it was impossible, so they did it!
Mark Twain