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
Sex is fun, but it probably doesn't solve all your problems.
Larry Wall
The function name should define everything the function does.
Anonymous
Pasting code from the Internet into production code is like chewing gum found in the street.
Anonymous
Sometimes I think the only universal in the computing field is the fetch-execute cycle.
Alan J. Perlis
It’s hardware that makes a machine fast. It’s software that makes a fast machine slow.
Craig Bruce
Debugging is anticipated with distaste, performed with reluctance, and bragged about forever.
Dan Kaminsky
The difference between theory and practice is smaller in theory than in practice.
Anonymous
It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.
Hofstadter's Law
Java is like a variant of the game of Tetris in which none of the pieces can fill gaps created by the other pieces, so all you can do is pile them up endlessly.
Steve Yegge
Yes, sometimes Perl looks like line noise to the uninitiated, but to the seasoned Perl programmer, it looks like checksummed line noise with a mission in life.
Randal Schwartz