Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The string is a stark data structure and everywhere it is passed there is much duplication of process. It is a perfect vehicle for hiding information.
Alan J. Perlis
Ever spend a little time reading comp.lang.c++ ? That's really the best place to learn about the number of C++ users looking for a better language.
R. William Beckwith
Fifty years of programming language research, and we end up with C++ ?
Richard A. O'Keefe
Professionalism has no place in art, and hacking is art. Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer.
Jamie Zawinski
Anyone who considers arithmetic methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin.
John von Neumann
Easy things should be easy and hard things should be possible.
Larry Wall
Pasting code from the Internet into production code is like chewing gum found in the street.
Anonymous
Profanity is the one language all programmers know best.
Anonymous
Editing is a rewording activity.
Alan J. Perlis
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
Rich Cook