Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Blame doesn't fix bugs.
Anonymous
Tell me what you need and I'll tell you how to get along without it.
Anonymous
In C, its easy to shoot yourself in the foot. C++ makes it more difficult, but when you do, you'll blow your whole leg off.
Stroustrup
C++ : Where friends have access to your private members.
Gavin Russell Baker
Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to rewrite (and reuse).
Eric Raymond
Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration.
Stan Kelly-Bootle
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
Douglas Adams
God is a hacker, not an engineer. You can do reverse engineering, but you can’t do reverse hacking.
Francis Crick
The goal of computation is the emulation of our synthetic abilities, not the understanding of our analytic ones.
Alan J. Perlis
For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
H L Mencken