Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
It is the user who should parameterize procedures, not their creators.
Alan J. Perlis
When debugging, novices insert corrective code; experts remove defective code.
Richard Pattis
UNIX is user friendly. It just picks whom it wants to be friends with.
Anonymous
It is often easier to not do something dumb than it is to do something smart.
Anonymous
How do we convince people that in programming simplicity and clarity —in short: what mathematicians call "elegance"— are not a dispensable luxury, but a crucial matter that decides between success and failure?
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Must be zero, or equal to MAPI_UNICODE. In either case, however, this parameter is ignored.
MSDN
Programming is like sex: one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life.
Michael Sinz
The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.
Anonymous
There are only two industries that refer to their customers as users: the computer industry and the drug trade.
Edward Tufte
The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offence.
Edsger Dijkstra