Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Java is a DSL to transform big Xml documents into long exception stack traces.
Scott Bellware
Blame doesn't fix bugs.
Anonymous
One man's constant is another man's variable.
Alan J. Perlis
The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague.
Edsger Dijkstra
Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
Alan J. Perlis
It makes no sense to try to do what we can. We must do what is necessary.
Winston Churchill
There is nothing quite so permanent as a quick fix.
Anonymous
If we're supposed to work in Hex, why have we only got A fingers?
Anonymous
The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offence.
Edsger Dijkstra
C: a language that combines all the elegance and power of assembly language with all the readability and maintainability of assembly language.
Anonymous