Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
In seeking the unattainable, simplicity only gets in the way.
Alan J. Perlis
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
The debate rages on: is PL/I Bachtrian or Dromedary?
Alan J. Perlis
Motto for a research laboratory: What we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
Alan J. Perlis
One programmer can do in one day what two programmers can do in two.
Anonymous
KISS - Keep It Simple Stupid
Anonymous
Beware of the Turing tar-pit in which everything is possible but nothing of interest is easy.
Alan J. Perlis
Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.
Martin Fowler
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
Debuggers don't remove bugs. They only show them in slow motion.
Anonymous