Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
A computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things. They are, in short, a perfect match.
Bill Bryson
Every language has an optimization operator. In C++ that operator is ‘//’
Anonymous
True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read.
Pliny the Elder
If you can't explain something to a six-year-old, you really don't understand it yourself.
Albert Einstein
The time machine's software will have a recursive main method.
Anonymous
The goal is to deliver clean code that works - now.
Kent Beck
Make it correct,
Wes Dyer
make it clear,
make it concise,
make it fast.
In that order.
We're even wrong about which mistakes we're making.
Carl Winfeld
The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offence.
Edsger Dijkstra
Education is the process of learning more and more about less and less until one knows everything about nothing and is entitled to call oneself 'Doctor'.
Anonymous