Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
There are 10 types of people in the world, those who can read binary, and those who can't.
Anonymous
They have computers, and they may have other weapons of mass destruction.
Janet Reno
Most people find the concept of programming obvious, but the doing impossible.
Alan J. Perlis
Make something fool-proof and someone will make a better fool.
Anonymous
The function name should define everything the function does.
Anonymous
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
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Thomas A. Edison
... what society overwhelmingly asks for is snake oil. Of course, the snake oil has the most impressive names — otherwise you would be selling nothing — like "Structured Analysis and Design", "Software Engineering", "Maturity Models", "Management Information Systems", "Integrated Project Support Environments" "Object Orientation" and "Business Process Re-engineering" (the latter three being known as IPSE, OO and BPR, respectively).
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Web Development is a lot like kickboxing: You have to watch your cookies.
Anonymous
...basically, avoid comments. If your code needs a comment to be understood, it would be better to rewrite it so it's easier to understand.
Rob Pike