Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
I invented the term Object-Oriented, and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
Alan Kay
Nothing is more permanent than a temporary solution.
Thomas' First Law
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
Beware of the Turing tar-pit in which everything is possible but nothing of interest is easy.
Alan J. Perlis
I get as much enjoyment from trashing code as I do from scratching it out in the first place!
Anonymous
Web Development is a lot like kickboxing: You have to watch your cookies.
Anonymous
C: a language that combines all the elegance and power of assembly language with all the readability and maintainability of assembly language.
Anonymous
In my experience, one of the most significant problems in software development is assuming. If you assume a method will passed the right parameter value, the method will fail.
Paul M. Duvall
I've never written the best code I've ever written.
Anonymous
For systems, the analogue of a face-lift is to add to the control graph an edge that creates a cycle, not just an additional node.
Alan J. Perlis