Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Sex is fun, but it probably doesn't solve all your problems.
Larry Wall
There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
Alan J. Perlis
...basically, avoid comments. If your code needs a comment to be understood, it would be better to rewrite it so it's easier to understand.
Rob Pike
The future will be like the past, because in the past the future was like the past.
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Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
Alan Kay
Only in wealth, there is room for a bad idea.
Jasper van der Meer
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
Education is the process of learning more and more about less and less until one knows everything about nothing and is entitled to call oneself 'Doctor'.
Anonymous
The primary duty of an exception handler is to get the error out of the lap of the programmer and into the surprised face of the user. Provided you keep this cardinal rule in mind, you can't go far wrong.
Verity Stob
There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.
Bjarne Stroustrup