Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
A programmer started to cuss
Anonymous
Because getting to sleep was a fuss
As he lay there in bed
Looping 'round in his head
was: while(!asleep()) sheep++;
Change breaks the brittle.
Jan Houtema
Good programmers learn more from "That's not what I expected!" than from getting it right the first time.
Anonymous
Programming is like sex: one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life.
Michael Sinz
C++ is more of a rube-goldberg type thing full of high-voltages, large chain-driven gears, sharp edges, exploding widgets, and spots to get your fingers crushed. And because of it's complexity many (if not most) of it's users don't know how it works, and can't tell ahead of time what's going to cause them to loose an arm.
Grant Edwards
Easy things should be easy and hard things should be possible.
Larry Wall
Think of it this way: threads are like salt, not like pasta. You like salt, I like salt, we all like salt. But we eat more pasta.
Larry McVoy
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Sir Arthur C Clarke
Singleton is a misconcept in OOP unless it's used as a misconcepted paradigm for application development.
Anonymous
I hate code, and I want as little of it in our product as possible.
Jack Diederich