Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
C is to programming as Latin is to literature.
Anonymous
Perhaps if we wrote programs from childhood on, as adults we'd be able to read them.
Alan J. Perlis
Testing like the TSA.
David Heinemeier Hansson on testing too much
It is easier to port a shell than a shell script.
Larry Wall
In C, its easy to shoot yourself in the foot. C++ makes it more difficult, but when you do, you'll blow your whole leg off.
Stroustrup
Writing in C or C++ is like running a chain saw with all the safety guards removed.
Bob Gray
You start writing code, I'll go see what the customer wants
Anonymous
If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.
Robert X. Cringely
There are 10 types of people. Those who can read ternary, those who can't and those who mistake it for binary.
Anonymous
If you can't explain something to a six-year-old, you really don't understand it yourself.
Albert Einstein