Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
When debugging, novices insert corrective code; experts remove defective code.
Richard Pattis
Change breaks the brittle.
Jan Houtema
It seems to me you can program with discipline or you can program with bondage and discipline. You can't avoid the discipline either way, but bondage appeals to some people.
Patrick Logan
All programming is an exercise in caching.
Terje Mathisen
I couldn't resist the temptation to put in a null reference, simply because it was so easy to implement. This has led to innumerable errors, vulnerabilities, and system crashes, which have probably caused a billion dollars of pain and damage in the last forty years.
Tony (C.A.R.) Hoare
Users are a terrible thing. Systems would be infinitely more stable without them.
Michael T. Nygard.
First, solve the problem. Then, write the code.
John Johnson
A computer scientist counts to ten: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 ...
Anonymous
Everyone else counts to ten: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
If we're supposed to work in Hex, why have we only got A fingers?
Anonymous
On the 7th day ... God began debugging.
Anonymous