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
Debuggers don't remove bugs. They only show them in slow motion.
Anonymous
A computer scientist counts to ten: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 ...
Anonymous
Everyone else counts to ten: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
When debugging, novices insert corrective code; experts remove defective code.
Richard Pattis
When in doubt, leave it out.
Joshua Bloch
I'll try to be nicer if you try to be smarter.
Assaf Nitzan
Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration.
Stan Kelly-Bootle
From a programmer's point of view, the user is a peripheral that types when you issue a read request.
Peter Williams
We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.
Larry Wall
I'm not a great programmer; I'm just a good programmer with great habits.
Kent Beck