Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Only Half of programming is coding. The other 90% is debugging.
Anonymous
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
Douglas Adams
Fast, Cheap, Reliable: Pick any two.
Anonymous
When debugging, novices insert corrective code; experts remove defective code.
Richard Pattis
I get as much enjoyment from trashing code as I do from scratching it out in the first place!
Anonymous
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
Documentation is like term insurance: It satisfies because almost no one who subscribes to it depends on its benefits.
Alan J. Perlis
Functions delay binding; data structures induce binding. Moral: Structure data late in the programming process.
Alan J. Perlis
God is Real, unless declared Integer.
Anonymous
Good programmers learn more from "That's not what I expected!" than from getting it right the first time.
Anonymous