Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If at first you don't succeed, try/catch, try/catch again.
Anonymous
A fool with a tool is still a fool.
Anonymous
Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases.
Anonymous
Re graphics: A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
Alan J. Perlis
If it doesn't work, change the documentation.
Anonymous
Blame doesn't fix bugs.
Anonymous
The question of whether computers can think is just like the question of whether submarines can swim.
Edsger W. Dijkstra
If we can't fix it, then it ain't broke.
Jon Bentley
if you are a programmer working in 2003 and you don't know the basics of characters, character sets, encodings, and Unicode, and I catch you, I'm going to punish you by making you peel onions for 6 months in a submarine.
Joel Spolsky
It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program. What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail and learning to be self-critical?
Alan J. Perlis