Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Whereas Europeans generally pronounce my name the right way ('Nick-louse Veert'), Americans invariably mangle it into 'Nickel's Worth.' This is to say that Europeans call me by name, but Americans call me by value.
Niklaus Wirth
XML is like violence - if it's not working for you, you're not using enough of it.
Anonymous
When we write programs that "learn", it turns out that we do and they don't.
Alan J. Perlis
When in doubt, leave it out.
Joshua Bloch
A program without a loop and a structured variable isn't worth writing.
Alan J. Perlis
You can't solve social problems through technical means.
Anonymous
What you’ve described, “The bottleneck in writing code isn’t in the writing of the code, it’s in understanding and conceptualising what needs to be done,” is common to all highly abstract programming languages. Writing Haskell, for example, involves an hour of meditation followed by the emission of a fold expression.
Jonathan Feinberg
If you can build it, your users can break it.
Anonymous
Good design adds value faster than it adds cost.
Thomas C. Gale
Saying that Java is good because it works on all platforms is like saying anal sex is good because it works on all genders.
Anonymous