Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.
Larry Wall
In programming, everything we do is a special case of something more general -- and often we know it too quickly.
Alan J. Perlis
What I cannot build, I do not understand.
Richard Feynman
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
Douglas Adams
If you give someone a program, you will frustrate them for a day; if you teach them how to program, you will frustrate them for a lifetime.
Anonymous
If the code and the comments disagree, then both are probably wrong.
Anonymous
Whenever two programmers meet to criticize their programs, both are silent.
Alan J. Perlis
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
A fool with a tool is still a fool.
Anonymous
Java. The elegant simplicity of C++. The blazing speed of Smalltalk.
Anonymous