Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
I couldn't resist the temptation to put in a null reference, simply because it was so easy to implement. This has led to innumerable errors, vulnerabilities, and system crashes, which have probably caused a billion dollars of pain and damage in the last forty years.
Tony (C.A.R.) Hoare
Change breaks the brittle.
Jan Houtema
God did not create the world in seven days; for six days he screwed around and then pulled an all-nighter.
Anonymous
As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.
Dave Parnas
Good programmers invest the effort to learn how to use current practices. Not-so-good programmers just learn the buzzwords, and that’s been a software industry constant for a half century.
Boris Beizer
There is no programming language, no matter how structured, that will prevent programmers from making bad programs.
Larry Flon
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'
Isaac Asimov
Programming is like sex: one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life.
Michael Sinz
Good programmers learn more from "That's not what I expected!" than from getting it right the first time.
Anonymous
To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer.
Paul Ehrlich
In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they're not.
Anonymous