Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Think of it this way: threads are like salt, not like pasta. You like salt, I like salt, we all like salt. But we eat more pasta.
Larry McVoy
My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going on to be scared.
P. J. Plauger
Every program is a part of some other program and rarely fits.
Alan J. Perlis
A logician trying to explain logic to a programmer is like a cat trying to explain to a fish what it's like to get wet.
Anonymous
Sure, it's overkill. But you can never have too much overkill...
Anonymous
Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.
Anonymous
If you're going to break it, then break it good. Break everything. Get to the very front of the line. Don't like move up a couple of slots. That's pointless.
Anders Hejlsberg
KISS - Keep It Simple Stupid
Anonymous
In effect, we conjure the spirits of the computer with our spells.
From SICP
Get into a rut early: Do the same process the same way. Accumulate idioms. Standardize. The only difference(!) between Shakespeare and you was the size of his idiom list - not the size of his vocabulary.
Alan J. Perlis