Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Behind Every Successful Coder, there'an even more successful De-Coder to understand that Code.
Anonymous
80 percent of my problems are simple logic errors. 80 percent of the remaining problems are pointer errors. The remaining problems are hard.
Mark Donner, IBM Watson Research Center
Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration.
Stan Kelly-Bootle
In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they're not.
Anonymous
If you don't think you're doing great things, you're probably right.
Anonymous
I think Microsoft named .Net so it wouldn't show up in a Unix directory listing.
Oktal
It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all...
Larry Wall
Testing like the TSA.
David Heinemeier Hansson on testing too much
Now I'm a pretty lazy person and am prepared to work quite hard in order to avoid work.
Martin Fowler
The most important computer is the one that rages in our skulls and ever seeks that satisfactory external emulator. The standarization of real computers would be a disaster - and so it probably won't happen.
Alan J. Perlis