Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Anyone who considers arithmetic methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin.
John von Neumann
If your bug has a one in a million chance of happening, it'll happen next tuesday.
Anonymous
Inside every complex program is a simple program trying to get out.
Anonymous
Code is everything I thought poetry was, back when we were in school. Clean, expressive, urgent, all-encompassing. Fourteen lines can open up to fill the available universe.
Richard Powers
Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration.
Stan Kelly-Bootle
The sooner you get behind in your work, the more time you have to catch up.
Anonymous
I went to school to learn how to program software applications, which inevitably have bug defects. There was no course at my university on testing, debugging, profiling, or optimization. These things you have to learn on your own, usually in a tight deadline.
Juixe TechKnow
A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
Alan J. Perlis
Think twice before you start programming or you will program twice before you start thinking.
Anonymous
The third version is the first version that doesn't suck.
Mike Simpson