Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
To most Java developers, Ruby/Rails is like a mistress. Ruby/Rails is young, new, and exciting; but eventually we go back to old faithful, dependable, and employable Java with some new tricks and idioms and we are the better programmer for it.
Juixe TechKnow
Now I'm a pretty lazy person and am prepared to work quite hard in order to avoid work.
Martin Fowler
As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.
Dave Parnas
Manually managing blocks of memory in C is like juggling bars of soap in a prison shower: It's all fun and games until you forget about one of them.
Anonymous
How do we convince people that in programming simplicity and clarity —in short: what mathematicians call "elegance"— are not a dispensable luxury, but a crucial matter that decides between success and failure?
Edsger W. Dijkstra
It makes no sense to try to do what we can. We must do what is necessary.
Winston Churchill
Some programmers try to reach higher by standing on other programmers' shoulders. Other programmers try to reach higher by standing on other programmers' toes.
Anonymous
Java. The elegant simplicity of C++. The blazing speed of Smalltalk.
Anonymous
It's 5.50 a.m.... Do you know where your stack pointer is?
Anonymous
Starting a startup is hard, but having a 9 to 5 job is hard too, and in some ways a worse kind of hard.
Paul Graham