Smoking may be hazardous to your health.
Windows is a virus.
Coincidence does not exist. Perfection does.
It's all in the code.
Python is the universal glue.
Intellectual property is a mental illness.
Programmers are tools for converting caffeine into code.
There are 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don't.
Linux: the choice of a GNU generation
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. (A. Einstein)
Perfection [in design] is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to build bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning. (Rick Cook)
In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they're not. (Yoggi Berra)
Most good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program. (Linus Torvalds)
Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live. (Martin Golding)
If Microsoft had developed Internet, we could not ever see the source code of web pages. HTML might be a compiled language then.
What one programmer can do in one month, two programmers can do in two months.
Windows 9x: n. 32 bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16 bit patch to an 8 bit operating system originally coded for a 4 bit microprocessor, written by a 2 bit company that can't stand 1 bit of competition. (Cygwin FAQ)
You know, when you have a program that does something really cool, and you wrote it from scratch, and it took a significant part of your life, you grow fond of it. When it's finished, it feels like some kind of amorphous sculpture that you've created. It has an abstract shape in your head that's completely independent of its actual purpose. Elegant, simple, beautiful.\nThen, only a year later, after making dozens of pragmatic alterations to suit the people who use it, not only has your Venus-de-Milo lost both arms, she also has a giraffe's head sticking out of her chest and a cherubic penis that squirts colored water into a plastic bucket. The romance has become so painful that each day you struggle with an overwhelming urge to smash the fucking thing to pieces with a hammer. (Nick Foster)
One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code. (Ken Thompson)
