Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
C++ is an horrible language. Even if the choice of C were to do *nothing* but keep the C++ programmers out, that in itself would be a huge reason to use C.
Linus Torvalds
Singleton is a misconcept in OOP unless it's used as a misconcepted paradigm for application development.
Anonymous
C is to programming as Latin is to literature.
Anonymous
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
E. W. Dijkstra
Engineering is the art of doing with one dollar what any damn fool can do with two.
From Space Systems Failures by David M. Harland and Ralph D. Lorenz
A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
Alan J. Perlis
Inside every complex program is a simple program trying to get out.
Anonymous
Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.
Alan J. Perlis
If you get it free, it is worthless. If you pay for it, it has value. If you build it yourself, it is priceless.
Raj More
Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
Alan J. Perlis