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
80 percent of my problems are simple logic errors. 80 percent of the remaining problems are pointer errors. The remaining problems are hard.
Mark Donner, IBM Watson Research Center
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 understand a program you must become both the machine and the program.
Alan J. Perlis
Java is a DSL to transform big Xml documents into long exception stack traces.
Scott Bellware
If it doesn't have to work, we can do it real quick.
Watts Humphrey
Saying that Java is good because it works on all platforms is like saying anal sex is good because it works on all genders.
Anonymous
If architects built houses the way programmers built programs, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization.
Gerald Weinberg
The Floppy Disk Icon means "save" for a whole generation of people who have never seen one.
Scott Hanselman
There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult.
C.A.R. Hoare.