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
They won't tell you that they don't understand it; they will happily invent their way through the gaps and obscurities.
V.A. Vyssotsky on software programmers and their views on specifications
My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going on to be scared.
P. J. Plauger
PHP is a minor evil perpetrated and created by incompetent amateurs, whereas Perl is a great and insidious evil perpetrated by skilled but perverted professionals.
Jon Ribbens
A programmer never dies he just degrades gracefully.
Anonymous
If your bug has a one in a million chance of happening, it'll happen next tuesday.
Anonymous
Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.
Andy Rooney
The only valid measurement of code quality: WTFs / minute
Thom Holwerda
We're even wrong about which mistakes we're making.
Carl Winfeld
Most people find the concept of programming obvious, but the doing impossible.
Alan J. Perlis
Nothing is more permanent than a temporary solution.
Thomas' First Law