Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If you don't think you're doing great things, you're probably right.
Anonymous
Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches: Banality soothes our nerves.
Alan J. Perlis
The computer is the ultimate polluter: its feces are indistinguish- able from the food it produces.
Alan J. Perlis
Perspective is worth 80 I.Q. points
Alan Kay
It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.
Hofstadter's Law
The object-oriented model makes it easy to build up programs by accretion. What this often means, in practice, is that it provides a structured way to write spaghetti code.
Paul Graham
One does not learn computing by using a hand calculator, but one can forget arithmetic.
Alan J. Perlis
Java is to JavaScript what Car is to Carpet.
Chris Heilmann
Testing like the TSA.
David Heinemeier Hansson on testing too much
To iterate is human, to recurse divine.
L. Peter Deutsch