Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Anything that can go wrong will go wrong, anything that can't go wrong will go wrong anyway.
Anonymous
If you lie to the compiler, it will get its revenge.
Henry Spencere
The function name should define everything the function does.
Anonymous
The greatest performance improvement of all is when a system goes from not-working to working.
John Ousterhout
There is no programming language, no matter how structured, that will prevent programmers from making bad programs.
Larry Flon
C++: an octopus made by nailing extra legs onto a dog.
Steve Taylor
Test driven development is like eating watermelon. Slice it up and work in sections at a time; eat all the red until all you have left is green.
Terry L Thompson
Three things should never be seen in the process of being created: laws, sausage, and software.
Anonymous
The computer is the ultimate polluter: its feces are indistinguish- able from the food it produces.
Alan J. Perlis
APL, I believe, can only be learned by writing one-liners–only by seeing in a sense, what you can compress into a line.
Alan J Perlis