Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Testing like the TSA.
David Heinemeier Hansson on testing too much
Documentation is like sex. When it's good, it's fantastic. When it's bad, it's still better than nothing.
Anonymous
The whole HTML validation exercise is questionable, but validating as XHTML is flat-out masochism. Only recommended for those that enjoy pain. Or programmers. I can't always tell the difference.
Jeff Atwood
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
Vincent van Gogh
Must be zero, or equal to MAPI_UNICODE. In either case, however, this parameter is ignored.
MSDN
You're never done, you just run out of time.
Anonymous
If you can imagine a society in which the computer - robot is the only menial, you can imagine anything.
Alan J. Perlis
Code reuse is the Holy Grail of Software Engineering.
Douglas Crockford
So many good ideas are never heard from again once they embark in a voyage on the semantic gulf.
Alan J. Perlis
If at first you don't succeed, try/catch, try/catch again.
Anonymous