Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Question: How does a large software project get to be one year late? Answer: One day at a time!
Fred Brooks
XML is like violence - if it's not working for you, you're not using enough of it.
Anonymous
Before software should be reusable, it should be usable.
Ralph Johnson
Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases.
Anonymous
As Will Rogers would have said, "There is no such thing as a free variable."
Alan J. Perlis
All real programmers know C of course.
Jeff Atwood
When I have a specific goal in mind and a complicated piece of code to write, I spend my time making it happen rather than telling myself stories about it.
Steve Yegge
God did not create the world in seven days; for six days he screwed around and then pulled an all-nighter.
Anonymous
Fifty years of programming language research, and we end up with C++ ?
Richard A. O'Keefe
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction.
E.F. Schumacher