Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The more bizarre the behavior, the more stupid the mistake.
Ed's Law of Debugging
And don't tell me there isn't one bit of difference between null and space, because that's exactly how much difference there is.
Larry Wall
Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls must dive down below.
John Dryden
The best code is no code at all.
Anonymous
Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.
Martin Fowler
If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough.
Alan Kay
In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can't.
Alan J. Perlis
If a program manipulates a large amount of data, it does so in a small number of ways.
Alan J. Perlis
PHP is a minor evil perpetrated and created by incompetent amateurs, whereas Perl is a great and insidious evil perpetrated by skilled but perverted professionals.
Jon Ribbens
C++ is more of a rube-goldberg type thing full of high-voltages, large chain-driven gears, sharp edges, exploding widgets, and spots to get your fingers crushed. And because of it's complexity many (if not most) of it's users don't know how it works, and can't tell ahead of time what's going to cause them to loose an arm.
Grant Edwards