Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration.
Stan Kelly-Bootle
Only Half of programming is coding. The other 90% is debugging.
Anonymous
Structured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.
Alan J. Perlis
The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague.
Edsger Dijkstra
Perhaps if we wrote programs from childhood on, as adults we'd be able to read them.
Alan J. Perlis
The debate rages on: is PL/I Bachtrian or Dromedary?
Alan J. Perlis
Like wine, the mastery of programming matures with time. But, unlike wine, it gets sweeter in the process.
Lawrence Mucheka
It is often easier to not do something dumb than it is to do something smart.
Anonymous
The goal is to deliver clean code that works - now.
Kent Beck
No code is faster than no code.
Anonymous