Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Debugging is like farting - it's not so bad when it's your own code.
Anonymous
Systems have sub-systems and sub-systems have sub- systems and so on ad infinitum - which is why we're always starting over.
Alan J. Perlis
And don't tell me there isn't one bit of difference between null and space, because that's exactly how much difference there is.
Larry Wall
The best book on programming for the layman is "Alice in Wonderland"; but that's because it's the best book on anything for the layman.
Alan J. Perlis
The only constructive theory connecting neuroscience and psychology will arise from the study of software.
Alan J. Perlis
There is no IRL, only AFK
Anonymous
You have to "solve" the problem once in order to clearly define it and then solve it again to create a solution that works.
Anonymous
If you use copy and paste while you're coding, you're probably committing a design error.
David Parnas
First, solve the problem. Then, write the code.
John Johnson
Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
Alan J. Perlis