Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
C++ has its place in the history of programming languages. Just as Caligula has his place in the history of the Roman Empire.
Robert Firth
Systems have sub-systems and sub-systems have sub- systems and so on ad infinitum - which is why we're always starting over.
Alan J. Perlis
Structured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.
Alan J. Perlis
In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they're not.
Anonymous
Writing in C or C++ is like running a chain saw with all the safety guards removed.
Bob Gray
You start writing code, I'll go see what the customer wants
Anonymous
The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late."
Seymour Cray
If we'd asked the customers what they wanted, they would have said "faster horses".
Henry Ford
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
Alan J. Perlis
There are 10 types of people in the world, those who can read binary, and those who can't.
Anonymous