Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The more bizarre the behavior, the more stupid the mistake.
Ed's Law of Debugging
C trades a slap on the wrist at compile time for a knife in the back at run time.
Anonymous
Programming is difficult. At its core, it is about managing complexity. Computer programs are the most complex things that humans make. Quality is illusive and elusive.
Douglas Crockford
If you're going to break it, then break it good. Break everything. Get to the very front of the line. Don't like move up a couple of slots. That's pointless.
Anders Hejlsberg
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Sir Arthur C Clarke
... what society overwhelmingly asks for is snake oil. Of course, the snake oil has the most impressive names — otherwise you would be selling nothing — like "Structured Analysis and Design", "Software Engineering", "Maturity Models", "Management Information Systems", "Integrated Project Support Environments" "Object Orientation" and "Business Process Re-engineering" (the latter three being known as IPSE, OO and BPR, respectively).
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Fight code entropy.
John Carmack
Java is a DSL to transform big Xml documents into long exception stack traces.
Scott Bellware
If architects built houses the way programmers built programs, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization.
Gerald Weinberg
If we're supposed to work in Hex, why have we only got A fingers?
Anonymous