Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Interfaces keep things tidy, but don't accelerate growth: Functions do.
Alan J. Perlis
The best thing about a boolean is even if you are wrong, you are only off by a bit.
Anonymous
Fight code entropy.
John Carmack
The structure of software systems tend to reflect the structure of the organization that produce them.
Douglas Crocford
It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC. As potential programmers, they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.
E. W. Dijkstra
Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.
Cory Doctorow
Jesus saves but only Buddha makes incremental backups.
Anonymous
If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution.
Robert Sewell
Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration.
Stan Kelly-Bootle
Think twice before you start programming or you will program twice before you start thinking.
Anonymous