Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Good design adds value faster than it adds cost.
Thomas C. Gale
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Sir Arthur C Clarke
The whole HTML validation exercise is questionable, but validating as XHTML is flat-out masochism. Only recommended for those that enjoy pain. Or programmers. I can't always tell the difference.
Jeff Atwood
If it doesn't work, it doesn't matter how fast it doesn't work.
Ravera's observation on premature optimization
Mostly, when you see programmers, they aren't doing anything. One of the attractive things about programmers is that you cannot tell whether or not they are working simply by looking at them. Very often they're sitting there seemingly drinking coffee and gossiping, or just staring into space. What the programmer is trying to do is get a handle on all the individual and unrelated ideas that are scampering around in his head.
Charles M Strauss
Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.
Alan Kay
We kid ourselves if we think that the ratio of procedure to data in an active data-base system can be made arbitrarily small or even kept small.
Alan J. Perlis
Java is a DSL to transform big Xml documents into long exception stack traces.
Scott Bellware
It compiles. Ship it!
Anonymous
What is the difference between a Turing machine and the modern computer? It's the same as that between Hillary's ascent of Everest and the establishment of a Hilton hotel on its peak.
Alan J. Perlis