Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Vi is a subset of evil.
Anonymous
The only constructive theory connecting neuroscience and psychology will arise from the study of software.
Alan J. Perlis
In a world without walls and fences, who needs Windows and Gates?
Anonymous
It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than 10 functions on 10 data structures.
Alan J. Perlis
The best things are simple, but finding these simple things is not simple.
Anonymous
There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.
Bjarne Stroustrup
Never underestimate the disparity between developer excitement and user apathy.
Anonymous
FORTRAN, the infantile disorder, by now nearly 20 years old, is hopelessly inadequate for whatever computer application you have in mind today: it is now too clumsy, too risky, and too expensive to use.
E. W. Dijkstra
I think Microsoft named .Net so it wouldn't show up in a Unix directory listing.
Oktal
The whole HTML validation exercise is questionable, but validating as XHTML is flat-out masochism. Only recommended for those that enjoy pain. Or programmers. I can't always tell the difference.
Jeff Atwood