Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The C Programming Language — A language which combines the flexibility of assembly language with the power of assembly language.
Anonymous
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
Alan J. Perlis
It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC. As potential programmers, they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.
E. W. Dijkstra
C++ has its place in the history of programming languages. Just as Caligula has his place in the history of the Roman Empire.
Robert Firth
If it works, leave it alone — there's no need to understand it. If it fails, try to fix it — there's no time to understand it.
Bill Pfeifer
If you've seen one picture of the Mandelbrot Set, you've seen them all.
Bill Karwin
If you require information, do not free memory containing the information.
MSDN
The difference between something that can go wrong and something that can’t possibly go wrong is that when something that can’t possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.
Douglas Adams
If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
Hal Abelson
There will always be things we wish to say in our programs that in all known languages can only be said poorly.
Alan J. Perlis