Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Any problem in computer science can be solved with another layer of indirection. But that usually will create another problem.
David Wheeler
The sooner we start coding fewer frameworks and more programs the sooner we’ll become better programmers.
Warped Java Guy Elementary Java Solutions
We have the mini and the micro computer. In what semantic niche would the pico computer fall?
Alan J. Perlis
The key to performance is elegance, not battalions of special cases.
Jon Bentley and Doug McIlroy
A programmer started to cuss
Anonymous
Because getting to sleep was a fuss
As he lay there in bed
Looping 'round in his head
was: while(!asleep()) sheep++;
There are 10 types of people. Those who can read ternary, those who can't and those who mistake it for binary.
Anonymous
A program without a loop and a structured variable isn't worth writing.
Alan J. Perlis
If you don't think you're doing great things, you're probably right.
Anonymous
Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.
Brian Kernighan
The only valid measurement of code quality: WTFs / minute
Thom Holwerda