Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
God is Real, unless declared Integer.
Anonymous
There are only two hard problems in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.
Phil Karlton
It's hard enough to find an error in your code when you're looking for it; it's even harder when you've assumed your code is error-free.
Steve McConnell
Like wine, the mastery of programming matures with time. But, unlike wine, it gets sweeter in the process.
Lawrence Mucheka
Manually managing blocks of memory in C is like juggling bars of soap in a prison shower: It's all fun and games until you forget about one of them.
Anonymous
When it comes to code it never pays to rush.
Marick's Law
As soon as you agree on the number of spaces for indentation, no-one argues for tabs.
Alvar Lumberg
The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures.
Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
The best thing about a boolean is even if you are wrong, you are only off by a bit.
Anonymous
All programmers are optimists.
Frederick Brooks