Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
There are only two industries that refer to their customers as users: the computer industry and the drug trade.
Edward Tufte
C++: an octopus made by nailing extra legs onto a dog.
Steve Taylor
Documentation is like sex. When it's good, it's fantastic. When it's bad, it's still better than nothing.
Anonymous
Why did the Roman Empire collapse? What is Latin for office automation?
Alan J. Perlis
Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to see it as a soap bubble?
Alan J. Perlis
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
It takes an intelligent person to build something complex; it takes a genius to build something simple.
Anonymous
XML is like violence - if it's not working for you, you're not using enough of it.
Anonymous
What I cannot build, I do not understand.
Richard Feynman
Sure, it's overkill. But you can never have too much overkill...
Anonymous