Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Manually managing blocks of memory in C is like juggling bars of soap in a prison shower: It's all fun and games until you forget about one of them.
Anonymous
One man's constant is another man's variable.
Alan J. Perlis
I went to school to learn how to program software applications, which inevitably have bug defects. There was no course at my university on testing, debugging, profiling, or optimization. These things you have to learn on your own, usually in a tight deadline.
Juixe TechKnow
Weeks of coding can save you hours of planning.
Anonymous
Jesus saves but only Buddha makes incremental backups.
Anonymous
In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
Alan J. Perlis
The computer is the ultimate polluter: its feces are indistinguish- able from the food it produces.
Alan J. Perlis
The object-oriented model makes it easy to build up programs by accretion. What this often means, in practice, is that it provides a structured way to write spaghetti code.
Paul Graham
Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.
Murphy's Law
The function name should define everything the function does.
Anonymous