Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If you use copy and paste while you're coding, you're probably committing a design error.
David Parnas
What I cannot build, I do not understand.
Richard Feynman
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.
Anonymous
The structure of software systems tend to reflect the structure of the organization that produce them.
Douglas Crocford
Programming is not like being in the CIA; you don't get credit for being sneaky. It's more like advertising; you get lots of credit for making your connections as blatant as possible.
Steve McConnell on coupling from, "Code Complete."
The sooner you get behind in your work, the more time you have to catch up.
Anonymous
Giving pointers and threads to programmers is like giving whisky and car keys to teenagers.
P. J. O'Rourke
Every language has an optimization operator. In C++ that operator is ‘//’
Anonymous
A computer scientist counts to ten: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 ...
Anonymous
Everyone else counts to ten: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Sometimes I think the only universal in the computing field is the fetch-execute cycle.
Alan J. Perlis