Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
Douglas Adams
In order to understand recursion, one must first understand recursion.
Anonymous
Use four digits. A new millenium is coming.
Jon Bentley (1976)
C++ is an horrible language. Even if the choice of C were to do *nothing* but keep the C++ programmers out, that in itself would be a huge reason to use C.
Linus Torvalds
A C program is like a fast dance on a newly waxed dance floor by people carrying razors.
Waldi Ravens
You can write software expecting the hardware to be perfect, unfortunately hardware is not perfect and you have to fix it in code.
W. Giraud
A logician trying to explain logic to a programmer is like a cat trying to explain to a fish what it's like to get wet.
Anonymous
Nothing is more permanent than a temporary solution.
Thomas' First Law
Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live.
Rick Osborne
In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can't.
Alan J. Perlis