Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live.
Rick Osborne
if you are a programmer working in 2003 and you don't know the basics of characters, character sets, encodings, and Unicode, and I catch you, I'm going to punish you by making you peel onions for 6 months in a submarine.
Joel Spolsky
The primary duty of an exception handler is to get the error out of the lap of the programmer and into the surprised face of the user. Provided you keep this cardinal rule in mind, you can't go far wrong.
Verity Stob
For systems, the analogue of a face-lift is to add to the control graph an edge that creates a cycle, not just an additional node.
Alan J. Perlis
If you want to set off and go develop some grand new thing, you don't need millions of dollars of capitalization. You need enough pizza and Diet Coke to stick in your refrigerator, a cheap PC to work on and the dedication to go through with it.
John Carmack
An ideal world is left as an exercise to the reader.
From Paul Graham's "On Lisp"
And don't tell me there isn't one bit of difference between null and space, because that's exactly how much difference there is.
Larry Wall
Software Engineering isn't rocket science ... it's harder.
Anonymous
In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
Alan J. Perlis
All problems in computer science can be solved with another level of indirection.
David Wheeler