Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Starting a startup is hard, but having a 9 to 5 job is hard too, and in some ways a worse kind of hard.
Paul Graham
Anyone who considers arithmetic methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin.
John von Neumann
I went to school to learn how to program software applications, which inevitably have bug defects. There was no course at my university on testing, debugging, profiling, or optimization. These things you have to learn on your own, usually in a tight deadline.
Juixe TechKnow
You can't solve social problems through technical means.
Anonymous
If it doesn't have to work, we can do it real quick.
Watts Humphrey
Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live.
Rick Osborne
It should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer would ever consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure. Basic professional ethics would instead require him to write a DestroyCity procedure, to which Baghdad could be given as a parameter.
Nathaniel S Borenstein
The best code is no code at all.
Anonymous
Documentation is like sex. When it's good, it's fantastic. When it's bad, it's still better than nothing.
Anonymous
There are 10 types of people. Those who can read ternary, those who can't and those who mistake it for binary.
Anonymous