Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
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.
Any sufficiently well-documented lisp program contains an ML program in its comments.
Anonymous
The best thing about a boolean is even if you are wrong, you are only off by a bit.
Anonymous
Fight code entropy.
John Carmack
If it doesn't work, it doesn't matter how fast it doesn't work.
Ravera's observation on premature optimization
Debugging is anticipated with distaste, performed with reluctance, and bragged about forever.
Dan Kaminsky
If two people write exactly the same program, each should be put into microcode and then they certainly won't be the same.
Alan J. Perlis
Yes, sometimes Perl looks like line noise to the uninitiated, but to the seasoned Perl programmer, it looks like checksummed line noise with a mission in life.
Randal Schwartz
Must be zero, or equal to MAPI_UNICODE. In either case, however, this parameter is ignored.
MSDN
Don't worry if it doesn't work right. If everything did, you'd be out of a job.
Mosher's Law of Software Engineering