Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
It can scarcely be denied that the supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a single datum of experience.
Albert Einstein
Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.
Alan Kay
Good programmers never write what they can steal or borrow.
Jeff Atwood
XML is like violence - if it's not working for you, you're not using enough of it.
Anonymous
Compatibility means deliberately repeating other people's mistakes.
Anonymous
Perl - The only language that looks the same before and after RSA encryption.
Keith Bostic
There is nothing quite so permanent as a quick fix.
Anonymous
You can have a negative percent chance of succeeding in a task. For example, if you have a -5% chance of succeeding, not only will you fail every time you make an attempt, you will also fail 1 in 20 times that you don't even try.
Anonymous
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
Rich Cook
C++: an octopus made by nailing extra legs onto a dog.
Steve Taylor