Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
I think Microsoft named .Net so it wouldn't show up in a Unix directory listing.
Oktal
Any technology that surpasses 50% penetration will never double again (in any number of months).
Peter Norvig's law
Mostly, when you see programmers, they aren't doing anything. One of the attractive things about programmers is that you cannot tell whether or not they are working simply by looking at them. Very often they're sitting there seemingly drinking coffee and gossiping, or just staring into space. What the programmer is trying to do is get a handle on all the individual and unrelated ideas that are scampering around in his head.
Charles M Strauss
Pasting code from the Internet into production code is like chewing gum found in the street.
Anonymous
Make something fool-proof and someone will make a better fool.
Anonymous
Code is never finished, only abandoned.
Anonymous
If at first you don't succeed, try/catch, try/catch again.
Anonymous
Linux is only free if your time has no value.
Jamie Zawinski
I was a C++ programmer before I started designing Ruby. I programmed in C++ exclusively for two or three years. And after two years of C++ programming, it still surprised me.
Matz
And don't tell me there isn't one bit of difference between null and space, because that's exactly how much difference there is.
Larry Wall