Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
... what society overwhelmingly asks for is snake oil. Of course, the snake oil has the most impressive names — otherwise you would be selling nothing — like "Structured Analysis and Design", "Software Engineering", "Maturity Models", "Management Information Systems", "Integrated Project Support Environments" "Object Orientation" and "Business Process Re-engineering" (the latter three being known as IPSE, OO and BPR, respectively).
Edsger W. Dijkstra
In the good old days physicists repeated each other's experiments, just to be sure. Today they stick to FORTRAN, so that they can share each other's programs, bugs included.
Edsger W. Dijkstra
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
There are 10 types of people. Those who can read ternary, those who can't and those who mistake it for binary.
Anonymous
Remember, a great way to avoid broken code is to have less of it. The code that you never write will work forever.
Russ Olsen
Perl - The only language that looks the same before and after RSA encryption.
Keith Bostic
Never memorize what you can look up in books.
Albert Einstein
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
Niels Bohr
Never underestimate the disparity between developer excitement and user apathy.
Anonymous
The more bizarre the behavior, the more stupid the mistake.
Ed's Law of Debugging