Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The latest new features in C++ are designed to fix the previously new features in C++.
David Jameson
Java is like a variant of the game of Tetris in which none of the pieces can fill gaps created by the other pieces, so all you can do is pile them up endlessly.
Steve Yegge
Anyone who considers arithmetic methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin.
John von Neumann
Systems have sub-systems and sub-systems have sub- systems and so on ad infinitum - which is why we're always starting over.
Alan J. Perlis
There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.
Bjarne Stroustrup
You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.
Alan J. Perlis
It is easier to port a shell than a shell script.
Larry Wall
A program without a loop and a structured variable isn't worth writing.
Alan J. Perlis
You think you know when you can learn, are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
Alan J. Perlis
The cheapest, fastest, and most reliable components are those that aren't there.
Gordon Bell