Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
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
Writing in C or C++ is like running a chain saw with all the safety guards removed.
Bob Gray
Whatever code we hack, be it programming language, poetic language, math or music, curves or colourings, we create the possibility of new things entering the world. Not always great things, or even good things, but new things.
McKenzie Wark in "A hacker Manifesto":02
Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them.
Alan J. Perlis
Anyone who has a wife and small kids knows that programming belongs to the easy things in life.
Anonymous
Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter.
Eric Raymond
Are you quite sure that all those bells and whistles, all those wonderful facilities of your so called powerful programming languages, belong to the solution set rather than the problem set?
Edsger W. Dijkstra
There are only two industries that refer to their customers as users: the computer industry and the drug trade.
Edward Tufte
Testing like the TSA.
David Heinemeier Hansson on testing too much
The question of whether computers can think is just like the question of whether submarines can swim.
Edsger W. Dijkstra