Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The whole HTML validation exercise is questionable, but validating as XHTML is flat-out masochism. Only recommended for those that enjoy pain. Or programmers. I can't always tell the difference.
Jeff Atwood
The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures.
Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.
Edsger Dijkstra
UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.
Dennis Ritchie
Software is like sex: It's better when it's free.
Linus Torvalds
He who hasn't hacked assembly language as a youth has no heart. He who does as an adult has no brain.
John Moore
In seeking the unattainable, simplicity only gets in the way.
Alan J. Perlis
If it doesn't work, it doesn't matter how fast it doesn't work.
Ravera's observation on premature optimization
C++ : Where friends have access to your private members.
Gavin Russell Baker
If we'd asked the customers what they wanted, they would have said "faster horses".
Henry Ford