Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The difference between theory and practice is smaller in theory than in practice.
Anonymous
Never memorize what you can look up in books.
Albert Einstein
It should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer would ever consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure. Basic professional ethics would instead require him to write a DestroyCity procedure, to which Baghdad could be given as a parameter.
Nathaniel S Borenstein
You're never done, you just run out of time.
Anonymous
One man's constant is another man's variable.
Alan J. Perlis
Deleted code is debugged code.
Jeff Sickel
There are only two industries that refer to their customers as users: the computer industry and the drug trade.
Edward Tufte
There's no test like production.
Anonymous
The function name should define everything the function does.
Anonymous
Think of compilation as cooking. Dynamic typing means the steak is juicy and still a little red, like red meat is supposed to be. Static typing means you burnt it to a crisp.
Erik Naggum