Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
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
In my experience, one of the most significant problems in software development is assuming. If you assume a method will passed the right parameter value, the method will fail.
Paul M. Duvall
[Perl] combines all the worst aspects of C and Lisp: a billion different sublanguages in one monolithic executable. It combines the power of C with the readability of PostScript.
Jamie Zawinski
Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live.
Rick Osborne
The computer is the ultimate polluter: its feces are indistinguish- able from the food it produces.
Alan J. Perlis
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
Niels Bohr
Perl - The only language that looks the same before and after RSA encryption.
Keith Bostic
Once you've dressed and before you leave the house, look in the mirror and take at least one thing off.
Coco Chanel
Computers don't introduce order anywhere as much as they expose opportunities.
Alan J. Perlis
When we write programs that "learn", it turns out that we do and they don't.
Alan J. Perlis