Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
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
There are only two industries that refer to their customers as users: the computer industry and the drug trade.
Edward Tufte
Program testing can be a very effective way to show the presence of bugs, but is hopelessly inadequate for showing their absence.
Edsger Dijkstra
Question: How does a large software project get to be one year late? Answer: One day at a time!
Fred Brooks
There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult.
C.A.R. Hoare.
You might as well pay your customers 50K because they are just your QA.
Juixe TechKnow
For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
H L Mencken
To most Java developers, Ruby/Rails is like a mistress. Ruby/Rails is young, new, and exciting; but eventually we go back to old faithful, dependable, and employable Java with some new tricks and idioms and we are the better programmer for it.
Juixe TechKnow
Singleton is a misconcept in OOP unless it's used as a misconcepted paradigm for application development.
Anonymous
Sex is fun, but it probably doesn't solve all your problems.
Larry Wall