Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Compatibility means deliberately repeating other people's mistakes.
Anonymous
Perl - The only language that looks the same before and after RSA encryption.
Keith Bostic
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
Douglas Adams
Some programmers, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use floating point arithmetic." Now they have 1.999999999997 problems.
Tom Scott
The Floppy Disk Icon means "save" for a whole generation of people who have never seen one.
Scott Hanselman
Over the centuries the Indians developed sign language for communicating phenomena of interest. Programmers from different tribes (FORTRAN, LISP, ALGOL, SNOBOL, etc.) could use one that doesn't require them to carry a blackboard on their ponies.
Alan J. Perlis
To understand a program you must become both the machine and the program.
Alan J. Perlis
Singleton is a misconcept in OOP unless it's used as a misconcepted paradigm for application development.
Anonymous
Nothing is more permanent than a temporary solution.
Thomas' First Law
A documented bug is not a bug; it is a feature.
James P. MacLennan