Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Java is to JavaScript what Car is to Carpet.
Chris Heilmann
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
Memory is like an orgasm. It's a lot better if you don't have to fake it.
Seymour Cray on virtual memory
Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.
Donald Knuth
As soon as you agree on the number of spaces for indentation, no-one argues for tabs.
Alvar Lumberg
C++ : Where friends have access to your private members.
Gavin Russell Baker
All programmers are optimists.
Frederick Brooks
Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
Alan J. Perlis
I hate code, and I want as little of it in our product as possible.
Jack Diederich
Program testing can be a very effective way to show the presence of bugs, but is hopelessly inadequate for showing their absence.
Edsger Dijkstra