Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If we're supposed to work in Hex, why have we only got A fingers?
Anonymous
To most Java developers, Ruby/Rails is like a mistress. Ruby/Rails is young, new, and exciting; but eventually we go back to old faithful, dependable, and employable Java with some new tricks and idioms and we are the better programmer for it.
Juixe TechKnow
Three things should never be seen in the process of being created: laws, sausage, and software.
Anonymous
Beware of the Turing tar-pit in which everything is possible but nothing of interest is easy.
Alan J. Perlis
One does not learn computing by using a hand calculator, but one can forget arithmetic.
Alan J. Perlis
If your bug has a one in a million chance of happening, it'll happen next tuesday.
Anonymous
When you want to do something differently from the rest of the world, it's a good idea to look into whether the rest of the world knows something you don't.
Anonymous
I think there's a world market for about five computers.
Thomas J Watson Senior, 1945
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
A computer programmer is a device for turning coffee into bugs.
Bram Moolenaar