Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Any code of your own that you haven't looked at for six or more months might as well have been written by someone else.
Eagleson's Law
The difference between theory and practice is smaller in theory than in practice.
Anonymous
If the code and the comments disagree, then both are probably wrong.
Anonymous
A well-written program is its own heaven; a poorly-written program is its own hell.
Tao of Programming
It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than 10 functions on 10 data structures.
Alan J. Perlis
Good software, like wine, takes time.
Joel Spolsky
The C Programming Language — A language which combines the flexibility of assembly language with the power of assembly language.
Anonymous
Must be zero, or equal to MAPI_UNICODE. In either case, however, this parameter is ignored.
MSDN
In My Egotistical Opinion, most people's C programs should be indented six feet downward and covered with dirt.
Blair P. Houghton
When all you have is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail.
Anonymous
When we write programs that "learn", it turns out that we do and they don't.
Alan J. Perlis