Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all...
Larry Wall
The more bizarre the behavior, the more stupid the mistake.
Ed's Law of Debugging
In the good old days physicists repeated each other's experiments, just to be sure. Today they stick to FORTRAN, so that they can share each other's programs, bugs included.
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter.
Eric Raymond
Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
Alan J. Perlis
If it is worth doing once, it is worth automating...
Anonymous
If your bug has a one in a million chance of happening, it'll happen next tuesday.
Anonymous
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
C(++) is a write-only, high-level assembler language.
Stefan Van Baelen
Your code is both good and original. Unfortunately the parts that are good are not original, and the parts that are original are not good.
Anonymous