Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
XML is like violence - if it's not working for you, you're not using enough of it.
Anonymous
Any problem in computer science can be solved with another layer of indirection. But that usually will create another problem.
David Wheeler
The only valid measurement of code quality: WTFs / minute
Thom Holwerda
God is Real, unless declared Integer.
Anonymous
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If it's original, you'll have to ram it down their throats.
Howard Aiken
If you have a procedure with ten parameters, you probably missed some.
Alan J. Perlis
Whatever code we hack, be it programming language, poetic language, math or music, curves or colourings, we create the possibility of new things entering the world. Not always great things, or even good things, but new things.
McKenzie Wark in "A hacker Manifesto":02
Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them.
Alan J. Perlis
The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Remember, a great way to avoid broken code is to have less of it. The code that you never write will work forever.
Russ Olsen