This is a list of nice software quotes that i will keep updating over time.


"GRUB3 will be elisp serialized as xml jited to jvm running as eclipse plugin on a mac running in a virtual pc in a xen instance on a 286er."
- Somebody

"Most xml i've seen makes me think i'm dyslexic. it also looks constipated, and two health problems in one standard is just too much"
- Charles Forsyth on 9fans

"XML is simply lisp done wrong"
- Alan Cox

"XML is like violence. Sure, it seems like a quick and easy solution at first, but then it spirals out of control into utter chaos"
- Sarkos in reddit

"XML combines the efficiency of text files with the readability of binary files"
- somebody

"Ruby is Scheme mated with Perl in such a way that the best genes of both failed to exert a phenotype"
- frumious in reddit

"Everything you heard about Ruby being slow is not true. It's about twice as slow as that"
- Ex-perl hacker now working with Rails

"Ruby performance tuning really feels like trying to get the best miles per gallon out of a tricycle"
- David R. MacIver

"if you are into pain, get the autotools book.. Read it awhile, throw it in a box and start sacrificing to Cthulu"
- Somebody

"Using Java for serious jobs is like trying to take the skin off a rice pudding wearing boxing gloves."
- Tel Hudson

"Arguing that Java is better than C++ is like arguing that grasshoppers taste better than tree bark."
- Thant Tessman

"Java: the elegant simplicity of C++ and the blazing speed of Smalltalk."
- Jan Steinman