Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
C(++) is a write-only, high-level assembler language.
Stefan Van Baelen
The evolution of languages: FORTRAN is a non-typed language. C is a weakly typed language. Ada is a strongly typed language. C++ is a strongly hyped language.
Ron Sercely
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
From a programmer's point of view, the user is a peripheral that types when you issue a read request.
Peter Williams
We're even wrong about which mistakes we're making.
Carl Winfeld
One Page Principle: A specification that will not fit on one page of 8.5x11 inch paper cannot be understood.
Mark Ardis
It makes no sense to try to do what we can. We must do what is necessary.
Winston Churchill
Java is to JavaScript what Car is to Carpet.
Chris Heilmann
When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
Alan J. Perlis
Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.
Brian Kernighan