Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The key to performance is elegance, not battalions of special cases.
Jon Bentley and Doug McIlroy
Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live.
Rick Osborne
Process is no substitute for synaptic activity.
Jeff DeLuca
Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from a rigged demonstration.
Anonymous
Must be zero, or equal to MAPI_UNICODE. In either case, however, this parameter is ignored.
MSDN
Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing until it gets there.
Josh Billings
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
Some programmers try to reach higher by standing on other programmers' shoulders. Other programmers try to reach higher by standing on other programmers' toes.
Anonymous
FORTRAN was the language of choice for the same reason that three-legged races are popular.
Ken Thompson
It is not a language's weakness but its strengths that control the gradient of its change: Alas, a language never escapes its embryonic sac.
Alan J. Perlis