Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
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
You have to "solve" the problem once in order to clearly define it and then solve it again to create a solution that works.
Anonymous
Program testing can be a very effective way to show the presence of bugs, but is hopelessly inadequate for showing their absence.
Edsger Dijkstra
One does not learn computing by using a hand calculator, but one can forget arithmetic.
Alan J. Perlis
Recursion is the root of computation since it trades description for time.
Alan J. Perlis
Make it correct,
Wes Dyer
make it clear,
make it concise,
make it fast.
In that order.
C++ is to C as Lung Cancer is to Lung.
Anonymous
When all you have is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail.
Anonymous
80 percent of my problems are simple logic errors. 80 percent of the remaining problems are pointer errors. The remaining problems are hard.
Mark Donner, IBM Watson Research Center
Never underestimate the disparity between developer excitement and user apathy.
Anonymous