Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Debugging is anticipated with distaste, performed with reluctance, and bragged about forever.
Dan Kaminsky
An idiot with a computer is a faster, better idiot.
Rich Julius
When debugging, novices insert corrective code; experts remove defective code.
Richard Pattis
Pasting code from the Internet into production code is like chewing gum found in the street.
Anonymous
A programmer started to cuss
Anonymous
Because getting to sleep was a fuss
As he lay there in bed
Looping 'round in his head
was: while(!asleep()) sheep++;
To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer.
Paul Ehrlich
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
UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.
Dennis Ritchie
If the code and the comments disagree, then both are probably wrong.
Anonymous
Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
Alan J. Perlis