Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Good architecture is necessary to give programs enough structure to be able to grow large without collapsing into a puddle of confusion.
Douglas Crockford
Complexity has nothing to do with intelligence, simplicity does.
Larry Bossidy
The key to performance is elegance, not battalions of special cases.
Jon Bentley and Doug McIlroy
Perhaps if we wrote programs from childhood on, as adults we'd be able to read them.
Alan J. Perlis
You want a dot operator in PHP?
Matthew Leffler
eval(str_replace('.', '->', $code_with_dot_operator))
Java is a DSL to transform big Xml documents into long exception stack traces.
Scott Bellware
My assertion that we can do better with computer languages is a persistent belief and fond hope, but you'll note I don't actually claim to be either rational or right. Except when it's convenient.
Larry Wall
The proof of a system's value is its existence.
Alan J. Perlis
I think Microsoft named .Net so it wouldn't show up in a Unix directory listing.
Oktal
The more bizarre the behavior, the more stupid the mistake.
Ed's Law of Debugging