Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
I think Microsoft named .Net so it wouldn't show up in a Unix directory listing.
Oktal
You have to "solve" the problem once in order to clearly define it and then solve it again to create a solution that works.
Anonymous
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
Debugging is anticipated with distaste, performed with reluctance, and bragged about forever.
Dan Kaminsky
Must be zero, or equal to MAPI_UNICODE. In either case, however, this parameter is ignored.
MSDN
When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
Alan J. Perlis
Every dark corner you haven't explored with your flashlight is full of bugs.
Kent Beck and Martin Fowler
You can't communicate complexity, only an awareness of it.
Alan J. Perlis
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Thomas A. Edison
Compatibility means deliberately repeating other people's mistakes.
Anonymous