Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Deleted code is debugged code.
Jeff Sickel
It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all...
Larry Wall
What you’ve described, “The bottleneck in writing code isn’t in the writing of the code, it’s in understanding and conceptualising what needs to be done,” is common to all highly abstract programming languages. Writing Haskell, for example, involves an hour of meditation followed by the emission of a fold expression.
Jonathan Feinberg
The real money isn't in the software. It's in the service you build with that software.
Jeff Atwood
Systems have sub-systems and sub-systems have sub- systems and so on ad infinitum - which is why we're always starting over.
Alan J. Perlis
God is Real, unless declared Integer.
Anonymous
The more bizarre the behavior, the more stupid the mistake.
Ed's Law of Debugging
C trades a slap on the wrist at compile time for a knife in the back at run time.
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
The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
Harlan Ellison