Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Sure, it's overkill. But you can never have too much overkill...
Anonymous
Ever spend a little time reading comp.lang.c++ ? That's really the best place to learn about the number of C++ users looking for a better language.
R. William Beckwith
Programmer - an organism that turns coffee into software.
Anonymous
One Page Principle: A specification that will not fit on one page of 8.5x11 inch paper cannot be understood.
Mark Ardis
It compiles. Ship it!
Anonymous
Confidence, n.: The feeling you have before you understand the situation.
Anonymous
The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.
Robert R. Coveyou, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to see it as a soap bubble?
Alan J. Perlis
C trades a slap on the wrist at compile time for a knife in the back at run time.
Anonymous
Code reuse is the Holy Grail of Software Engineering.
Douglas Crockford