Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.
Donald Knuth
Think twice before you start programming or you will program twice before you start thinking.
Anonymous
C trades a slap on the wrist at compile time for a knife in the back at run time.
Anonymous
APL, I believe, can only be learned by writing one-liners–only by seeing in a sense, what you can compress into a line.
Alan J Perlis
Testing like the TSA.
David Heinemeier Hansson on testing too much
If your bug has a one in a million chance of happening, it'll happen next tuesday.
Anonymous
Code is never finished, only abandoned.
Anonymous
Test driven development is like eating watermelon. Slice it up and work in sections at a time; eat all the red until all you have left is green.
Terry L Thompson
Multi-threading is the art of screwing things up before, during or after something else.
Anonymous
We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil.
Donald Knuth