Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The cheapest, fastest, and most reliable components are those that aren't there.
Gordon Bell
You might as well pay your customers 50K because they are just your QA.
Juixe TechKnow
PHP is a minor evil perpetrated and created by incompetent amateurs, whereas Perl is a great and insidious evil perpetrated by skilled but perverted professionals.
Jon Ribbens
Debugging is anticipated with distaste, performed with reluctance, and bragged about forever.
Dan Kaminsky
All problems in computer science can be solved with another level of indirection.
David Wheeler
Optimization hinders evolution.
Alan J. Perlis
Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live.
Rick Osborne
[Perl] combines all the worst aspects of C and Lisp: a billion different sublanguages in one monolithic executable. It combines the power of C with the readability of PostScript.
Jamie Zawinski
The question of whether computers can think is just like the question of whether submarines can swim.
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Java is C++ without the guns, knives, and clubs.
James Gosling