Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
I finally found a definition for "middleware". "Middleware" is the software nobody wants to pay for.
Chris Stone
In programming, everything we do is a special case of something more general -- and often we know it too quickly.
Alan J. Perlis
God is a hacker, not an engineer. You can do reverse engineering, but you can’t do reverse hacking.
Francis Crick
There is no IRL, only AFK
Anonymous
C trades a slap on the wrist at compile time for a knife in the back at run time.
Anonymous
If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?
John Wooden, basketball coach
Why did the Roman Empire collapse? What is Latin for office automation?
Alan J. Perlis
It makes no sense to try to do what we can. We must do what is necessary.
Winston Churchill
You can't eliminate problems, but you can make trades to get problems that you prefer over the ones you have now.
Eric Sink’s Axiom of Software Development
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