Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Programmer - an organism that turns coffee into software.
Anonymous
Sure, it's overkill. But you can never have too much overkill...
Anonymous
Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.
Albert Einstein
Enlightened trial and error outperforms the planning of flawless intellects.
David Kelly
The word “experienced” often refers to someone who’s gotten away with doing the wrong thing more frequently than you have.
Laurence Gonzales
If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough.
Alan Kay
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
The primary duty of an exception handler is to get the error out of the lap of the programmer and into the surprised face of the user. Provided you keep this cardinal rule in mind, you can't go far wrong.
Verity Stob
The computer is the ultimate polluter: its feces are indistinguish- able from the food it produces.
Alan J. Perlis
Think of all the psychic energy expended in seeking a fundamental distinction between "algorithm" and "program".
Alan J. Perlis