Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The latest new features in C++ are designed to fix the previously new features in C++.
David Jameson
Prolonged contact with the computer turns mathematicians into clerks and vice versa.
Alan J. Perlis
Good judgement is the result of experience ... Experience is the result of bad judgement.
Fred Brooks
An ideal world is left as an exercise to the reader.
From Paul Graham's "On Lisp"
...basically, avoid comments. If your code needs a comment to be understood, it would be better to rewrite it so it's easier to understand.
Rob Pike
The real money isn't in the software. It's in the service you build with that software.
Jeff Atwood
Fast, Cheap, Reliable: Pick any two.
Anonymous
Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
Alan J. Perlis
The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.
Anonymous
Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.
Andy Rooney