Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Let the code run free, if it needs to be debugged, it will come back.
Anonymous
Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.
Clark's law
True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read.
Pliny the Elder
If you require information, do not free memory containing the information.
MSDN
I couldn't resist the temptation to put in a null reference, simply because it was so easy to implement. This has led to innumerable errors, vulnerabilities, and system crashes, which have probably caused a billion dollars of pain and damage in the last forty years.
Tony (C.A.R.) Hoare
Theory is when you know something, but it doesn't work. Practice is when something works, but you don't know why. Programmers combine theory and practice: Nothing works and they don't know why.
Anonymous
C++: an octopus made by nailing extra legs onto a dog.
Steve Taylor
The bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned. Many software tasks have this characteristic because of the sequential nature of debugging.
Fred Brooks
It is often easier to not do something dumb than it is to do something smart.
Anonymous
A good system can't have a weak command language.
Alan J. Perlis