Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If you want to confuse your enemies, give them the source code. If you want to really confuse them, give them the documentation.
Anonymous
Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.
Alan J. Perlis
There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
Alan J. Perlis
Programming is not like being in the CIA; you don't get credit for being sneaky. It's more like advertising; you get lots of credit for making your connections as blatant as possible.
Steve McConnell on coupling from, "Code Complete."
Any problem in computer science can be solved with another layer of indirection. But that usually will create another problem.
David Wheeler
The whole HTML validation exercise is questionable, but validating as XHTML is flat-out masochism. Only recommended for those that enjoy pain. Or programmers. I can't always tell the difference.
Jeff Atwood
When we write programs that "learn", it turns out that we do and they don't.
Alan J. Perlis
Writing in C or C++ is like running a chain saw with all the safety guards removed.
Bob Gray
A computer scientist counts to ten: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 ...
Anonymous
Everyone else counts to ten: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
Alan Kay