Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
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
Why did the Roman Empire collapse? What is Latin for office automation?
Alan J. Perlis
Better train people and risk they leave – than do nothing and risk they stay.
Anonymous
All programming is an exercise in caching.
Terje Mathisen
God is Real, unless declared Integer.
Anonymous
Fast, Cheap, Reliable: Pick any two.
Anonymous
The goal of Computer Science is to build something that will last at least until we've finished building it.
Anonymous
It's difficult to extract sense from strings, but they're the only communication coin we can count on.
Alan J. Perlis
Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls must dive down below.
John Dryden
We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.
Larry Wall