Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late."
Seymour Cray
A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
Alan J. Perlis
Anything that can go wrong will go wrong, anything that can't go wrong will go wrong anyway.
Anonymous
Like a gas, software expands to fill its containing memory completely.
Anonymous
You think you know when you can learn, are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
Alan J. Perlis
Good programmers never write what they can steal or borrow.
Jeff Atwood
Software isn't about methodologies, languages, or even operating systems. It is about working applications.
Christopher Baus
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MSDN
Compatibility means deliberately repeating other people's mistakes.
Anonymous
Java is C++ without the guns, knives, and clubs.
James Gosling