Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If C didn't exist, we would be programming in OBOL, PASAL or BASI
Anonymous
Fifty years of programming language research, and we end up with C++ ?
Richard A. O'Keefe
In My Egotistical Opinion, most people's C programs should be indented six feet downward and covered with dirt.
Blair P. Houghton
Often it is the means that justify the ends: Goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
Alan J. Perlis
Java is C++ without the guns, knives, and clubs.
James Gosling
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked.
John Gall
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Thomas A. Edison
Code never lies, comments sometimes do.
Ron Jeffries
The debate rages on: is PL/I Bachtrian or Dromedary?
Alan J. Perlis
It is not the computer's fault that Maxwell's equations are not adequate to design the electric motor.
Alan J. Perlis