Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
You might as well pay your customers 50K because they are just your QA.
Juixe TechKnow
The primary duty of an exception handler is to get the error out of the lap of the programmer and into the surprised face of the user. Provided you keep this cardinal rule in mind, you can't go far wrong.
Verity Stob
Often it is the means that justify the ends: Goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
Alan J. Perlis
Most people find the concept of programming obvious, but the doing impossible.
Alan J. Perlis
There is no IRL, only AFK
Anonymous
If you lie to the compiler, it will get its revenge.
Henry Spencere
Anyone who has a wife and small kids knows that programming belongs to the easy things in life.
Anonymous
I've never written the best code I've ever written.
Anonymous
All programming is an exercise in caching.
Terje Mathisen
What you’ve described, “The bottleneck in writing code isn’t in the writing of the code, it’s in understanding and conceptualising what needs to be done,” is common to all highly abstract programming languages. Writing Haskell, for example, involves an hour of meditation followed by the emission of a fold expression.
Jonathan Feinberg