Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Web Development is a lot like kickboxing: You have to watch your cookies.
Anonymous
Test driven development is like eating watermelon. Slice it up and work in sections at a time; eat all the red until all you have left is green.
Terry L Thompson
Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.
Donald Knuth
There are 10 types of people in the world, those who can read binary, and those who can't.
Anonymous
Think of compilation as cooking. Dynamic typing means the steak is juicy and still a little red, like red meat is supposed to be. Static typing means you burnt it to a crisp.
Erik Naggum
We have the mini and the micro computer. In what semantic niche would the pico computer fall?
Alan J. Perlis
A program without a loop and a structured variable isn't worth writing.
Alan J. Perlis
If you have a procedure with ten parameters, you probably missed some.
Alan J. Perlis
If architects built houses the way programmers built programs, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization.
Gerald Weinberg
When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
R. Buckminster Fuller