Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
Alan J. Perlis
Any problem in computer science can be solved with another layer of indirection. But that usually will create another problem.
David Wheeler
It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all...
Larry Wall
The latest new features in C++ are designed to fix the previously new features in C++.
David Jameson
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
Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.
Edsger Dijkstra
If your bug has a one in a million chance of happening, it'll happen next tuesday.
Anonymous
Structured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.
Alan J. Perlis
If we'd asked the customers what they wanted, they would have said "faster horses".
Henry Ford
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
Rich Cook