Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Starting a startup is hard, but having a 9 to 5 job is hard too, and in some ways a worse kind of hard.
Paul Graham
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
The function name should define everything the function does.
Anonymous
C trades a slap on the wrist at compile time for a knife in the back at run time.
Anonymous
With all due respect John, I am the head of IT and I have it on good authority. If you type "Google" into Google, you can break the Internet.
Jen, "The IT Crowd"
Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
Alan J. Perlis
The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.
Larry Wall
A fool with a tool is still a fool.
Anonymous
Programming is like sex: one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life.
Michael Sinz
Test driven development is like eating watermelon. Slice it up and work in sections at a time; eat all the red until all you have left is green.
Terry L Thompson