Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
People who find Wiki-markup too difficult to use and need a WYSIWYG-editor shouldn't be using a Wiki in the first place.
Anonymous
Structured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.
Alan J. Perlis
It's OK to figure out murder mysteries, but you shouldn't need to figure out code. You should be able to read it.
Steve McConnell
It should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer would ever consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure. Basic professional ethics would instead require him to write a DestroyCity procedure, to which Baghdad could be given as a parameter.
Nathaniel S Borenstein
The more bizarre the behavior, the more stupid the mistake.
Ed's Law of Debugging
Giving pointers and threads to programmers is like giving whisky and car keys to teenagers.
P. J. O'Rourke
A computer programmer is a device for turning coffee into bugs.
Bram Moolenaar
A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing.
Alan J. Perlis
C++ has its place in the history of programming languages. Just as Caligula has his place in the history of the Roman Empire.
Robert Firth
Behind Every Successful Coder, there'an even more successful De-Coder to understand that Code.
Anonymous