Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The time machine's software will have a recursive main method.
Anonymous
Multitasking is the art of distracting yourself from two things you’d rather not be doing by doing them simultaneously.
Anonymous
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
Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.
George S. Patton
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Thomas A. Edison
The key to performance is elegance, not battalions of special cases.
Jon Bentley and Doug McIlroy
I think Microsoft named .Net so it wouldn't show up in a Unix directory listing.
Oktal
A well-written program is its own heaven; a poorly-written program is its own hell.
Tao of Programming
My assertion that we can do better with computer languages is a persistent belief and fond hope, but you'll note I don't actually claim to be either rational or right. Except when it's convenient.
Larry Wall
Education is the process of learning more and more about less and less until one knows everything about nothing and is entitled to call oneself 'Doctor'.
Anonymous