Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If at first you don't succeed, try/catch, try/catch again.
Anonymous
Make it correct,
Wes Dyer
make it clear,
make it concise,
make it fast.
In that order.
What I cannot build, I do not understand.
Richard Feynman
Processes and methodologies can make good servants but are poor masters.
Mark Dowd, John McDonald & Justin Schuh
You can't eliminate problems, but you can make trades to get problems that you prefer over the ones you have now.
Eric Sink’s Axiom of Software Development
I Hate Programming.
Anonymous
I Hate Programming.
I Hate Programming.
It works!
I Love Programming.
When a programming language is created that allows programmers to program in simple English, it will be discovered that programmers cannot speak English.
Anonymous
The more bizarre the behavior, the more stupid the mistake.
Ed's Law of Debugging
In my experience, one of the most significant problems in software development is assuming. If you assume a method will passed the right parameter value, the method will fail.
Paul M. Duvall
A program without a loop and a structured variable isn't worth writing.
Alan J. Perlis