Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
There's a fine line between being on the leading edge and being in the lunatic fringe.
Frank Armstrong
Must be zero, or equal to MAPI_UNICODE. In either case, however, this parameter is ignored.
MSDN
Anything that can go wrong will go wrong, anything that can't go wrong will go wrong anyway.
Anonymous
It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all...
Larry Wall
Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.
From SICP
People who think, "Oh this is a one-off," need to be offed, or perhaps politely removed from the project.
George Neville-Neil
Think of all the psychic energy expended in seeking a fundamental distinction between "algorithm" and "program".
Alan J. Perlis
Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.
Cory Doctorow
Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first, it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self-evident.
Arthur Schopenhauer
In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they're not.
Anonymous