Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that it's all learned.
Bruce Ediger
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
When in doubt, leave it out.
Joshua Bloch
Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.
Cory Doctorow
Amateur programmers think there are 1000 bytes in a kilobyte; Real Programmers know there are 1024 meters in a kilometer.
Anonymous
Testing like the TSA.
David Heinemeier Hansson on testing too much
Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
Alan J. Perlis
Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.
Brian Kernighan
The computer is the ultimate polluter: its feces are indistinguish- able from the food it produces.
Alan J. Perlis
The latest new features in C++ are designed to fix the previously new features in C++.
David Jameson