Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
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
If we can't fix it, then it ain't broke.
Jon Bentley
The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.
Larry Wall
A good programmer looks both ways before crossing a one-way street.
Anonymous
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
Alan J. Perlis
If you use copy and paste while you're coding, you're probably committing a design error.
David Parnas
Symmetry is a complexity-reducing concept (co-routines include subroutines); seek it everywhere.
Alan J. Perlis
When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.
Pablo Picasso
Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them.
Alan J. Perlis
A programmer that is 10 times better than another will probably be happy making only 3 times as much.
Paul Graham