Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Every program is a part of some other program and rarely fits.
Alan J. Perlis
People who deal with bits should expect to get bitten.
Jon Bentley
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If it's original, you'll have to ram it down their throats.
Howard Aiken
Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first, it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self-evident.
Arthur Schopenhauer
The only valid measurement of code quality: WTFs / minute
Thom Holwerda
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
Douglas Adams
Optimization hinders evolution.
Alan J. Perlis
Elegance is not optional.
Richard A. O'Keefe (from The Craft of Prolog)
Singleton is a misconcept in OOP unless it's used as a misconcepted paradigm for application development.
Anonymous
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