Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Your code is both good and original. Unfortunately the parts that are good are not original, and the parts that are original are not good.
Anonymous
Java is like a variant of the game of Tetris in which none of the pieces can fill gaps created by the other pieces, so all you can do is pile them up endlessly.
Steve Yegge
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Leonardo da Vinci
Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first, it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self-evident.
Arthur Schopenhauer
With all due respect John, I am the head of IT and I have it on good authority. If you type "Google" into Google, you can break the Internet.
Jen, "The IT Crowd"
If two people write exactly the same program, each should be put into microcode and then they certainly won't be the same.
Alan J. Perlis
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
Douglas Adams
All problems in computer science can be solved with another level of indirection.
David Wheeler
If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
Alan J. Perlis
Owning a computer without programming is like having a kitchen and using only the microwave oven.
Charles Petzold