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
The more bizarre the behavior, the more stupid the mistake.
Ed's Law of Debugging
Perhaps if we wrote programs from childhood on, as adults we'd be able to read them.
Alan J. Perlis
Perl - The only language that looks the same before and after RSA encryption.
Keith Bostic
A documented bug is not a bug; it is a feature.
James P. MacLennan
The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.
Larry Wall
When I have a specific goal in mind and a complicated piece of code to write, I spend my time making it happen rather than telling myself stories about it.
Steve Yegge
It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all...
Larry Wall
Designing software in a team is like writing poetry in a committee meeting.
Joel Spolsky
A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any other invention in human history, with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.
Mitch Ratcliffe