Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.
Anonymous
From a programmer's point of view, the user is a peripheral that types when you issue a read request.
Peter Williams
Amateur programmers think there are 1000 bytes in a kilobyte; Real Programmers know there are 1024 meters in a kilometer.
Anonymous
If you use copy and paste while you're coding, you're probably committing a design error.
David Parnas
Design bugs are often subtle and occur by evolution with early assumptions being forgotten as new features or uses are added to a system.
Fernando J. Corbató
Java is to JavaScript what Car is to Carpet.
Chris Heilmann
And don't tell me there isn't one bit of difference between null and space, because that's exactly how much difference there is.
Larry Wall
Some programmers, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use floating point arithmetic." Now they have 1.999999999997 problems.
Tom Scott
Computers don't introduce order anywhere as much as they expose opportunities.
Alan J. Perlis
Fast, Cheap, Reliable: Pick any two.
Anonymous