Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
A program without a loop and a structured variable isn't worth writing.
Alan J. Perlis
The latest new features in C++ are designed to fix the previously new features in C++.
David Jameson
Let the code run free, if it needs to be debugged, it will come back.
Anonymous
Programmers usually have good reasons for making bad decisions.
Anonymous
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
Hanlon's Razor
Java is C++ without the guns, knives, and clubs.
James Gosling
One programmer can do in one day what two programmers can do in two.
Anonymous
Prolonged contact with the computer turns mathematicians into clerks and vice versa.
Alan J. Perlis
I couldn't resist the temptation to put in a null reference, simply because it was so easy to implement. This has led to innumerable errors, vulnerabilities, and system crashes, which have probably caused a billion dollars of pain and damage in the last forty years.
Tony (C.A.R.) Hoare
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