Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing until it gets there.
Josh Billings
In order to understand recursion, one must first understand recursion.
Anonymous
Within a computer natural language is unnatural.
Alan J. Perlis
Must be zero, or equal to MAPI_UNICODE. In either case, however, this parameter is ignored.
MSDN
The best book on programming for the layman is "Alice in Wonderland"; but that's because it's the best book on anything for the layman.
Alan J. Perlis
All programming is an exercise in caching.
Terje Mathisen
Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live.
Rick Osborne
Interfaces keep things tidy, but don't accelerate growth: Functions do.
Alan J. Perlis
Program testing can be a very effective way to show the presence of bugs, but is hopelessly inadequate for showing their absence.
Edsger Dijkstra
Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.
Cory Doctorow