Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Singleton is a misconcept in OOP unless it's used as a misconcepted paradigm for application development.
Anonymous
The Internet? Is that thing still around?
Homer Simpson
Engineering is the art of doing with one dollar what any damn fool can do with two.
From Space Systems Failures by David M. Harland and Ralph D. Lorenz
From a programmer's point of view, the user is a peripheral that types when you issue a read request.
Peter Williams
Debugging is anticipated with distaste, performed with reluctance, and bragged about forever.
Dan Kaminsky
Good judgement is the result of experience ... Experience is the result of bad judgement.
Fred Brooks
Programming is not like being in the CIA; you don't get credit for being sneaky. It's more like advertising; you get lots of credit for making your connections as blatant as possible.
Steve McConnell on coupling from, "Code Complete."
Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
Isaac Asimov
Writing in C or C++ is like running a chain saw with all the safety guards removed.
Bob Gray
There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.
Bjarne Stroustrup