Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
I know it doesn't sound like a big effort, but programmers are really, really lazy, and they like to minimize motion. They'd use feeder tubes if the Health Department would let them.
Steve Yegge
Anyone who has a wife and small kids knows that programming belongs to the easy things in life.
Anonymous
Symmetry is a complexity-reducing concept (co-routines include subroutines); seek it everywhere.
Alan J. Perlis
People who deal with bits should expect to get bitten.
Jon Bentley
Software and cathedrals are much the same - first we build them, then we pray.
Anonymous
* No technique works if it isn't used.
Niven's laws
* Ethics change with technology.
* "F × S = k" the product of freedom and security is a constant.
The function name should define everything the function does.
Anonymous
I get as much enjoyment from trashing code as I do from scratching it out in the first place!
Anonymous
Java is a DSL to transform big Xml documents into long exception stack traces.
Scott Bellware
Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.
Clark's law