Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
You want a dot operator in PHP?
Matthew Leffler
eval(str_replace('.', '->', $code_with_dot_operator))
FORTRAN, the infantile disorder, by now nearly 20 years old, is hopelessly inadequate for whatever computer application you have in mind today: it is now too clumsy, too risky, and too expensive to use.
E. W. Dijkstra
Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
Alan J. Perlis
I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.
Dennis Ritchie
Lines of code are only worth counting, when time has come to delete them.
Anonymous
It makes no sense to try to do what we can. We must do what is necessary.
Winston Churchill
As soon as you agree on the number of spaces for indentation, no-one argues for tabs.
Alvar Lumberg
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Leonardo da Vinci
If we believe in data structures, we must believe in independent (hence simultaneous) processing. For why else would we collect items within a structure? Why do we tolerate languages that give us the one without the other?
Alan J. Perlis