Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned. Many software tasks have this characteristic because of the sequential nature of debugging.
Fred Brooks
C++: an octopus made by nailing extra legs onto a dog.
Steve Taylor
You want a dot operator in PHP?
Matthew Leffler
eval(str_replace('.', '->', $code_with_dot_operator))
There is no IRL, only AFK
Anonymous
It should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer would ever consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure. Basic professional ethics would instead require him to write a DestroyCity procedure, to which Baghdad could be given as a parameter.
Nathaniel S Borenstein
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Leonardo da Vinci
FORTRAN, the infantile disorder, by now nearly 20 years old, is hopelessly inadequate for whatever computer application you have in mind today: it is now too clumsy, too risky, and too expensive to use.
E. W. Dijkstra
Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from a rigged demonstration.
Anonymous
If you can't explain something to a six-year-old, you really don't understand it yourself.
Albert Einstein
If it doesn't work, change the documentation.
Anonymous