Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Now I'm a pretty lazy person and am prepared to work quite hard in order to avoid work.
Martin Fowler
As Will Rogers would have said, "There is no such thing as a free variable."
Alan J. Perlis
People who deal with bits should expect to get bitten.
Jon Bentley
Java is C++ without the guns, knives, and clubs.
James Gosling
I would love to change the world, but they won't give me the source code.
Anonymous
All programs have at least one bug remaining and can be optimized by one byte. Thus, by mathematical induction, all programs can be reduced to one byte. And it won't work.
Anonymous
I couldn't resist the temptation to put in a null reference, simply because it was so easy to implement. This has led to innumerable errors, vulnerabilities, and system crashes, which have probably caused a billion dollars of pain and damage in the last forty years.
Tony (C.A.R.) Hoare
Any technology that surpasses 50% penetration will never double again (in any number of months).
Peter Norvig's law
We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil.
Donald Knuth
They have computers, and they may have other weapons of mass destruction.
Janet Reno