Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
All programs have at least one bug remaining and can be optimized by one byte. Thus, by mathematical induction, all programs can be reduced to one byte. And it won't work.
Anonymous
It's 5.50 a.m.... Do you know where your stack pointer is?
Anonymous
There is not now, nor has there ever been, nor will there ever be, any programming language in which it is the least bit difficult to write bad code.
Anonymous
Testing like the TSA.
David Heinemeier Hansson on testing too much
Motto for a research laboratory: What we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
Alan J. Perlis
When debugging, novices insert corrective code; experts remove defective code.
Richard Pattis
Make something fool-proof and someone will make a better fool.
Anonymous
Singleton is a misconcept in OOP unless it's used as a misconcepted paradigm for application development.
Anonymous
It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.
Alan J. Perlis
Python's syntax succeeds in combining the mistakes of Lisp and Fortran. I do not construe that as progress.
Larry Wall