Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
I couldn't resist the temptation to put in a null reference, simply because it was so easy to implement. This has led to innumerable errors, vulnerabilities, and system crashes, which have probably caused a billion dollars of pain and damage in the last forty years.
Tony (C.A.R.) Hoare
[The common definition of estimate is] "An estimate is the most optimistic prediction that has a non-zero probability of coming true" . . . Accepting this definition leads irrevocably toward a method called what's-the-earliest- date-by-which-you-can't-prove-you-won't-be- finished estimating.
Tom DeMarco
Designing software in a team is like writing poetry in a committee meeting.
Joel Spolsky
Perl - The only language that looks the same before and after RSA encryption.
Keith Bostic
Singleton is a misconcept in OOP unless it's used as a misconcepted paradigm for application development.
Anonymous
They did not know it was impossible, so they did it!
Mark Twain
They won't tell you that they don't understand it; they will happily invent their way through the gaps and obscurities.
V.A. Vyssotsky on software programmers and their views on specifications
Every program is a part of some other program and rarely fits.
Alan J. Perlis
C trades a slap on the wrist at compile time for a knife in the back at run time.
Anonymous
In software systems, it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
Alan J. Perlis