Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
... one of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs.
Robert Firth
Going from programming in Pascal to programming in C, is like learning to write in Morse code.
J.P. Candusso
Think twice before you start programming or you will program twice before you start thinking.
Anonymous
We're even wrong about which mistakes we're making.
Carl Winfeld
Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live.
Rick Osborne
There are 10 types of people in the world, those who can read binary, and those who can't.
Anonymous
I've never written the best code I've ever written.
Anonymous
Sometimes, the elegant implementation is just a function. Not a method. Not a class. Not a framework. Just a function.
John Carmack
The idea that I can be presented with a problem, set out to logically solve it with the tools at hand, and wind up with a program that could not be legally used because someone else followed the same logical steps some years ago and filed for a patent on it is horrifying.
John Carmack on software patents
A program without a loop and a structured variable isn't worth writing.
Alan J. Perlis