Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Going from programming in Pascal to programming in C, is like learning to write in Morse code.
J.P. Candusso
The latest new features in C++ are designed to fix the previously new features in C++.
David Jameson
A startup now can be just a pair of 22 year old guys. A company like that can move much more easily than one with 10 people, half of whom have kids.
Paul Graham
They did not know it was impossible, so they did it!
Mark Twain
Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written, and another for which it wasn't.
Alan J. Perlis
The goal of computation is the emulation of our synthetic abilities, not the understanding of our analytic ones.
Alan J. Perlis
There's more than one way to do it.
Larry Wall about Perl
If the code and the comments disagree, then both are probably wrong.
Anonymous
We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil.
Donald Knuth
The third version is the first version that doesn't suck.
Mike Simpson