Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Programming can be fun, so can cryptography; however they should not be combined.
Kreitzberg and Shneiderman
Like wine, the mastery of programming matures with time. But, unlike wine, it gets sweeter in the process.
Lawrence Mucheka
Easy things should be easy and hard things should be possible.
Larry Wall
The only valid measurement of code quality: WTFs / minute
Thom Holwerda
XML is like violence - if it's not working for you, you're not using enough of it.
Anonymous
The key to performance is elegance, not battalions of special cases.
Jon Bentley and Doug McIlroy
Design bugs are often subtle and occur by evolution with early assumptions being forgotten as new features or uses are added to a system.
Fernando J. Corbató
Testing like the TSA.
David Heinemeier Hansson on testing too much
I'll try to be nicer if you try to be smarter.
Assaf Nitzan
True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read.
Pliny the Elder