Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
It is the user who should parameterize procedures, not their creators.
Alan J. Perlis
It compiles. Ship it!
Anonymous
Easy things should be easy and hard things should be possible.
Larry Wall
The more bizarre the behavior, the more stupid the mistake.
Ed's Law of Debugging
The proof of a system's value is its existence.
Alan J. Perlis
Every language has an optimization operator. In C++ that operator is ‘//’
Anonymous
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
Documentation is like term insurance: It satisfies because almost no one who subscribes to it depends on its benefits.
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
My programs don't have bugs, they just develop random features.
Anonymous