Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If you can imagine a society in which the computer - robot is the only menial, you can imagine anything.
Alan J. Perlis
You might as well pay your customers 50K because they are just your QA.
Juixe TechKnow
The best thing about a boolean is even if you are wrong, you are only off by a bit.
Anonymous
The Floppy Disk Icon means "save" for a whole generation of people who have never seen one.
Scott Hanselman
A computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things. They are, in short, a perfect match.
Bill Bryson
Java is a DSL to transform big Xml documents into long exception stack traces.
Scott Bellware
C: a language that combines all the elegance and power of assembly language with all the readability and maintainability of assembly language.
Anonymous
Most people find the concept of programming obvious, but the doing impossible.
Alan J. Perlis
They won't tell you that they don't understand it; they will happily invent their way through the gaps and obscurities.
V.A. Vyssotsky on software programmers and their views on specifications
There is nothing quite so permanent as a quick fix.
Anonymous