Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
Alan J. Perlis
Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration.
Stan Kelly-Bootle
If we're supposed to work in Hex, why have we only got A fingers?
Anonymous
Software isn't about methodologies, languages, or even operating systems. It is about working applications.
Christopher Baus
Jesus saves but only Buddha makes incremental backups.
Anonymous
...basically, avoid comments. If your code needs a comment to be understood, it would be better to rewrite it so it's easier to understand.
Rob Pike
The difference between theory and practice is smaller in theory than in practice.
Anonymous
C is quirky, flawed and an enormous success.
Dennis Ritchie
There is nothing quite so permanent as a quick fix.
Anonymous
All real programmers know C of course.
Jeff Atwood