Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration.
Stan Kelly-Bootle
C is quirky, flawed and an enormous success.
Dennis Ritchie
I get as much enjoyment from trashing code as I do from scratching it out in the first place!
Anonymous
We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.
Larry Wall
In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
Alan J. Perlis
Your code is both good and original. Unfortunately the parts that are good are not original, and the parts that are original are not good.
Anonymous
The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
Harlan Ellison
The proof of a system's value is its existence.
Alan J. Perlis
The best thing about a boolean is even if you are wrong, you are only off by a bit.
Anonymous
I invented the term Object-Oriented, and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
Alan Kay
If you require information, do not free memory containing the information.
MSDN