Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.
Larry Wall
In order to understand recursion, one must first understand recursion.
Anonymous
We have the mini and the micro computer. In what semantic niche would the pico computer fall?
Alan J. Perlis
There is not now, nor has there ever been, nor will there ever be, any programming language in which it is the least bit difficult to write bad code.
Anonymous
Working software is the primary measure of progress.
Agile Manifesto
It is often easier to not do something dumb than it is to do something smart.
Anonymous
It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all...
Larry Wall
Team debugging: the act of intimidating a PC into doing for two people what it refuses to do for one.
Anonymous
if you are a programmer working in 2003 and you don't know the basics of characters, character sets, encodings, and Unicode, and I catch you, I'm going to punish you by making you peel onions for 6 months in a submarine.
Joel Spolsky
In a world without walls and fences, who needs Windows and Gates?
Anonymous