Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Writing in C or C++ is like running a chain saw with all the safety guards removed.
Bob Gray
Java is C++ without the guns, knives, and clubs.
James Gosling
The computer is the ultimate polluter: its feces are indistinguish- able from the food it produces.
Alan J. Perlis
The goal is to deliver clean code that works - now.
Kent Beck
Think of all the psychic energy expended in seeking a fundamental distinction between "algorithm" and "program".
Alan J. Perlis
If you use copy and paste while you're coding, you're probably committing a design error.
David Parnas
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
Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.
Rich Kulawiec
The difference between something that can go wrong and something that can’t possibly go wrong is that when something that can’t possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.
Douglas Adams
APL, I believe, can only be learned by writing one-liners–only by seeing in a sense, what you can compress into a line.
Alan J Perlis