Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
One programmer can do in one day what two programmers can do in two.
Anonymous
Shipping is a feature.
Richard Campbell
Beware of the Turing tar-pit in which everything is possible but nothing of interest is easy.
Alan J. Perlis
Never underestimate the disparity between developer excitement and user apathy.
Anonymous
Programming is not like being in the CIA; you don't get credit for being sneaky. It's more like advertising; you get lots of credit for making your connections as blatant as possible.
Steve McConnell on coupling from, "Code Complete."
Java. The elegant simplicity of C++. The blazing speed of Smalltalk.
Anonymous
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Antoine de Saint Exupéry
In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
Alan J. Perlis
Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use regular expressions." Now they have two problems.
Jamie Zawinski
And don't tell me there isn't one bit of difference between null and space, because that's exactly how much difference there is.
Larry Wall