Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Singleton is a misconcept in OOP unless it's used as a misconcepted paradigm for application development.
Anonymous
A programmer that is 10 times better than another will probably be happy making only 3 times as much.
Paul Graham
If it works, leave it alone — there's no need to understand it. If it fails, try to fix it — there's no time to understand it.
Bill Pfeifer
Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
Alan J. Perlis
There's no test like production.
Anonymous
Purely applicative languages are poorly applicable.
Alan J. Perlis
Writing in C or C++ is like running a chain saw with all the safety guards removed.
Bob Gray
If we believe in data structures, we must believe in independent (hence simultaneous) processing. For why else would we collect items within a structure? Why do we tolerate languages that give us the one without the other?
Alan J. Perlis
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
90% of everything is crap
Sturgeon's Revelation