Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
It's hard enough to find an error in your code when you're looking for it; it's even harder when you've assumed your code is error-free.
Steve McConnell
Every program is a part of some other program and rarely fits.
Alan J. Perlis
Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor.
Wernher von Braun
Users are a terrible thing. Systems would be infinitely more stable without them.
Michael T. Nygard.
If your bug has a one in a million chance of happening, it'll happen next tuesday.
Anonymous
Sometimes, the elegant implementation is just a function. Not a method. Not a class. Not a framework. Just a function.
John Carmack
The reason we plan ahead is so that we don't have to do anything right now.
Anonymous
Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
Alan J. Perlis
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MSDN
The only constructive theory connecting neuroscience and psychology will arise from the study of software.
Alan J. Perlis