Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If architects built houses the way programmers built programs, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization.
Gerald Weinberg
Theory is when you know something, but it doesn't work. Practice is when something works, but you don't know why. Programmers combine theory and practice: Nothing works and they don't know why.
Anonymous
When it comes to code it never pays to rush.
Marick's Law
'Goto' is always evil, like in 'goto school' or 'goto work'.
Anonymous
j++; // increment j
Anonymous
If you require information, do not free memory containing the information.
MSDN
If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution.
Robert Sewell
FORTRAN, the infantile disorder, by now nearly 20 years old, is hopelessly inadequate for whatever computer application you have in mind today: it is now too clumsy, too risky, and too expensive to use.
E. W. Dijkstra
When a professional race car driver races, his pulse gets lower and he relaxes.
Jun-ichiro Hagino
When I code it is the same thing.
Only in wealth, there is room for a bad idea.
Jasper van der Meer