Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The sooner you get behind in your work, the more time you have to catch up.
Anonymous
If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
Alan J. Perlis
Giving pointers and threads to programmers is like giving whisky and car keys to teenagers.
P. J. O'Rourke
When debugging, novices insert corrective code; experts remove defective code.
Richard Pattis
You can have a negative percent chance of succeeding in a task. For example, if you have a -5% chance of succeeding, not only will you fail every time you make an attempt, you will also fail 1 in 20 times that you don't even try.
Anonymous
Interfaces keep things tidy, but don't accelerate growth: Functions do.
Alan J. Perlis
A computer programmer is a device for turning coffee into bugs.
Bram Moolenaar
As soon as you agree on the number of spaces for indentation, no-one argues for tabs.
Alvar Lumberg
Code never lies, comments sometimes do.
Ron Jeffries
Pasting code from the Internet into production code is like chewing gum found in the street.
Anonymous