Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
Vincent van Gogh
When it comes to code it never pays to rush.
Marick's Law
It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all...
Larry Wall
Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration.
Stan Kelly-Bootle
Giving up on assembly language was the apple in our Garden of Eden: Languages whose use squanders machine cycles are sinful. The LISP machine now permits LISP programmers to abandon bra and fig-leaf.
Alan J. Perlis
Programming is difficult. At its core, it is about managing complexity. Computer programs are the most complex things that humans make. Quality is illusive and elusive.
Douglas Crockford
Think of compilation as cooking. Dynamic typing means the steak is juicy and still a little red, like red meat is supposed to be. Static typing means you burnt it to a crisp.
Erik Naggum
We're even wrong about which mistakes we're making.
Carl Winfeld
Java is a DSL to transform big Xml documents into long exception stack traces.
Scott Bellware
Java is to JavaScript what Car is to Carpet.
Chris Heilmann