Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
God could create the world in six days because he didn't have to make it compatible with the previous version.
Anonymous
Remember, a great way to avoid broken code is to have less of it. The code that you never write will work forever.
Russ Olsen
Fifty years of programming language research, and we end up with C++ ?
Richard A. O'Keefe
Let the code run free, if it needs to be debugged, it will come back.
Anonymous
I couldn't resist the temptation to put in a null reference, simply because it was so easy to implement. This has led to innumerable errors, vulnerabilities, and system crashes, which have probably caused a billion dollars of pain and damage in the last forty years.
Tony (C.A.R.) Hoare
Weeks of coding can save you hours of planning.
Anonymous
Any set of procedures, no matter how well intentioned or useful, that are too difficult to follow, will be circumvented.
Ravera's First Law of System Administration
If we're supposed to work in Hex, why have we only got A fingers?
Anonymous
I don't care if it works on your machine! We are not shipping your machine!
Ovidiu Platon
Motto for a research laboratory: What we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
Alan J. Perlis