Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Only in wealth, there is room for a bad idea.
Jasper van der Meer
When debugging, novices insert corrective code; experts remove defective code.
Richard Pattis
Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.
From SICP
Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live.
Rick Osborne
* No technique works if it isn't used.
Niven's laws
* Ethics change with technology.
* "F × S = k" the product of freedom and security is a constant.
The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents.
Nathaniel Borenstein
Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction: One, it's completely impossible. Two, it's possible, but it's not worth doing. Three, I said it was a good idea all along.
Arthur C. Clarke
Some programmers try to reach higher by standing on other programmers' shoulders. Other programmers try to reach higher by standing on other programmers' toes.
Anonymous
Structured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.
Alan J. Perlis
C++ is an horrible language. Even if the choice of C were to do *nothing* but keep the C++ programmers out, that in itself would be a huge reason to use C.
Linus Torvalds