Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The Internet? Is that thing still around?
Homer Simpson
The third version is the first version that doesn't suck.
Mike Simpson
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
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
Vincent van Gogh
Talk is cheap, show me the code!
Linus Torvalds
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
So many good ideas are never heard from again once they embark in a voyage on the semantic gulf.
Alan J. Perlis
A documented bug is not a bug; it is a feature.
James P. MacLennan
Any sufficiently well-documented lisp program contains an ML program in its comments.
Anonymous
Re graphics: A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
Alan J. Perlis