Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Debuggers don't remove bugs. They only show them in slow motion.
Anonymous
The whole HTML validation exercise is questionable, but validating as XHTML is flat-out masochism. Only recommended for those that enjoy pain. Or programmers. I can't always tell the difference.
Jeff Atwood
Often it is the means that justify the ends: Goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
Alan J. Perlis
if you are a programmer working in 2003 and you don't know the basics of characters, character sets, encodings, and Unicode, and I catch you, I'm going to punish you by making you peel onions for 6 months in a submarine.
Joel Spolsky
Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration.
Stan Kelly-Bootle
If you've seen one picture of the Mandelbrot Set, you've seen them all.
Bill Karwin
Perspective is worth 80 I.Q. points
Alan Kay
Giving pointers and threads to programmers is like giving whisky and car keys to teenagers.
P. J. O'Rourke
Editing is a rewording activity.
Alan J. Perlis
You can't solve social problems through technical means.
Anonymous