Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If the code and the comments disagree, then both are probably wrong.
Anonymous
In a 5 year period we get one superb programming language. Only we can't control when the 5 year period will be.
Alan J. Perlis
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
Vincent van Gogh
Users are a terrible thing. Systems would be infinitely more stable without them.
Michael T. Nygard.
Purely applicative languages are poorly applicable.
Alan J. Perlis
Selecting a project due date before the requirements are properly gathered is like selecting which corner you want to paint yourself into, while simultaneously negating the doorway as a viable option.
Chris Ames
The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late."
Seymour Cray
There are only two hard problems in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.
Phil Karlton
Simplicity is hard to build, easy to use, and hard to charge for. Complexity is easy to build, hard to use, and easy to charge for.
Chris Sacca
C++ : Where friends have access to your private members.
Gavin Russell Baker