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
Good judgement is the result of experience ... Experience is the result of bad judgement.
Fred Brooks
A program without a loop and a structured variable isn't worth writing.
Alan J. Perlis
Within a computer natural language is unnatural.
Alan J. Perlis
All parts should go together without forcing. You must remember that the parts you are reassembling were disassembled by you. Therefore, if you can't get them together again, there must be a reason. By all means, do not use a hammer.
IBM Manual, 1925
Jesus saves but only Buddha makes incremental backups.
Anonymous
The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
Harlan Ellison
Multitasking is the art of distracting yourself from two things you’d rather not be doing by doing them simultaneously.
Anonymous
As soon as you agree on the number of spaces for indentation, no-one argues for tabs.
Alvar Lumberg
They did not know it was impossible, so they did it!
Mark Twain
There is no programming language, no matter how structured, that will prevent programmers from making bad programs.
Larry Flon