Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
In My Egotistical Opinion, most people's C programs should be indented six feet downward and covered with dirt.
Blair P. Houghton
Don't code today what you can't debug tomorrow
Anonymous
They won't tell you that they don't understand it; they will happily invent their way through the gaps and obscurities.
V.A. Vyssotsky on software programmers and their views on specifications
Think of it this way: threads are like salt, not like pasta. You like salt, I like salt, we all like salt. But we eat more pasta.
Larry McVoy
Within a computer natural language is unnatural.
Alan J. Perlis
People who deal with bits should expect to get bitten.
Jon Bentley
Every dark corner you haven't explored with your flashlight is full of bugs.
Kent Beck and Martin Fowler
Java is like a variant of the game of Tetris in which none of the pieces can fill gaps created by the other pieces, so all you can do is pile them up endlessly.
Steve Yegge
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
E. W. Dijkstra
The best book on programming for the layman is "Alice in Wonderland"; but that's because it's the best book on anything for the layman.
Alan J. Perlis