Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
You can stand on the shoulders of giants OR a big enough pile of dwarfs, works either way.
Anonymous
Symmetry is a complexity-reducing concept (co-routines include subroutines); seek it everywhere.
Alan J. Perlis
Designing software in a team is like writing poetry in a committee meeting.
Joel Spolsky
The sooner you get behind in your work, the more time you have to catch up.
Anonymous
Computation has made the tree flower.
Alan J. Perlis
Think of it this way: threads are like salt, not like pasta. You like salt, I like salt, we all like salt. But we eat more pasta.
Larry McVoy
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
Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them.
Alan J. Perlis
The sooner we start coding fewer frameworks and more programs the sooner we’ll become better programmers.
Warped Java Guy Elementary Java Solutions
In computing, invariants are ephemeral.
Alan J. Perlis