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 only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.
Bjarne Stroustrup
If a program manipulates a large amount of data, it does so in a small number of ways.
Alan J. Perlis
And don't tell me there isn't one bit of difference between null and space, because that's exactly how much difference there is.
Larry Wall
You can write software expecting the hardware to be perfect, unfortunately hardware is not perfect and you have to fix it in code.
W. Giraud
It's 5.50 a.m.... Do you know where your stack pointer is?
Anonymous
Around computers it is difficult to find the correct unit of time to measure progress. Some cathedrals took a century to complete. Can you imagine the grandeur and scope of a program that would take as long?
Alan J. Perlis
Only Half of programming is coding. The other 90% is debugging.
Anonymous
Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.
From SICP
Perl - The only language that looks the same before and after RSA encryption.
Keith Bostic
Good programmers never write what they can steal or borrow.
Jeff Atwood