Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.
Edsger Dijkstra
Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.
From SICP
C++: an octopus made by nailing extra legs onto a dog.
Steve Taylor
The structure of software systems tend to reflect the structure of the organization that produce them.
Douglas Crocford
Confidence, n.: The feeling you have before you understand the situation.
Anonymous
The primary duty of an exception handler is to get the error out of the lap of the programmer and into the surprised face of the user. Provided you keep this cardinal rule in mind, you can't go far wrong.
Verity Stob
It makes no sense to try to do what we can. We must do what is necessary.
Winston Churchill
Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration.
Stan Kelly-Bootle
C++ is more of a rube-goldberg type thing full of high-voltages, large chain-driven gears, sharp edges, exploding widgets, and spots to get your fingers crushed. And because of it's complexity many (if not most) of it's users don't know how it works, and can't tell ahead of time what's going to cause them to loose an arm.
Grant Edwards
All programming is an exercise in caching.
Terje Mathisen