Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration.
Stan Kelly-Bootle
There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed.
Bill Gates
How do we convince people that in programming simplicity and clarity —in short: what mathematicians call "elegance"— are not a dispensable luxury, but a crucial matter that decides between success and failure?
Edsger W. Dijkstra
To iterate is human, to recurse divine.
L. Peter Deutsch
C++: an octopus made by nailing extra legs onto a dog.
Steve Taylor
God is Real, unless declared Integer.
Anonymous
Blame doesn't fix bugs.
Anonymous
Let the code run free, if it needs to be debugged, it will come back.
Anonymous
Why did the Roman Empire collapse? What is Latin for office automation?
Alan J. Perlis
Process is no substitute for synaptic activity.
Jeff DeLuca
I hate code, and I want as little of it in our product as possible.
Jack Diederich