Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
I'll try to be nicer if you try to be smarter.
Assaf Nitzan
... one of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs.
Robert Firth
Development has two outputs... Code & Bugs
Anonymous
When in doubt, leave it out.
Joshua Bloch
Enlightened trial and error outperforms the planning of flawless intellects.
David Kelly
UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.
Dennis Ritchie
Java is like a variant of the game of Tetris in which none of the pieces can fill gaps created by the other pieces, so all you can do is pile them up endlessly.
Steve Yegge
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
Niels Bohr
Confidence, n.: The feeling you have before you understand the situation.
Anonymous
Compatibility means deliberately repeating other people's mistakes.
Anonymous