Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The best thing about a boolean is even if you are wrong, you are only off by a bit.
Anonymous
What you’ve described, “The bottleneck in writing code isn’t in the writing of the code, it’s in understanding and conceptualising what needs to be done,” is common to all highly abstract programming languages. Writing Haskell, for example, involves an hour of meditation followed by the emission of a fold expression.
Jonathan Feinberg
When someone says "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I wish done," give him a lollipop.
Alan J. Perlis
A fool with a tool is still a fool.
Anonymous
I know it doesn't sound like a big effort, but programmers are really, really lazy, and they like to minimize motion. They'd use feeder tubes if the Health Department would let them.
Steve Yegge
If you give someone a program, you will frustrate them for a day; if you teach them how to program, you will frustrate them for a lifetime.
Anonymous
'Goto' is always evil, like in 'goto school' or 'goto work'.
Anonymous
Good software, like wine, takes time.
Joel Spolsky
Debugging is like farting - it's not so bad when it's your own code.
Anonymous
Writing in C or C++ is like running a chain saw with all the safety guards removed.
Bob Gray