Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The primary duty of an exception handler is to get the error out of the lap of the programmer and into the surprised face of the user. Provided you keep this cardinal rule in mind, you can't go far wrong.
Verity Stob
... one of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs.
Robert Firth
Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.
Clark's law
The future will be like the past, because in the past the future was like the past.
About estimations
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If it's original, you'll have to ram it down their throats.
Howard Aiken
Though the Chinese should adore APL, it's FORTRAN they put their money on.
Alan J. Perlis
C++ : Where friends have access to your private members.
Gavin Russell Baker
You think you know when you can learn, are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
Alan J. Perlis
Singleton is a misconcept in OOP unless it's used as a misconcepted paradigm for application development.
Anonymous
To iterate is human, to recurse divine.
L. Peter Deutsch