Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
It is the user who should parameterize procedures, not their creators.
Alan J. Perlis
God did not create the world in seven days; for six days he screwed around and then pulled an all-nighter.
Anonymous
The best writing is rewriting.
E. B. White
In programming, everything we do is a special case of something more general -- and often we know it too quickly.
Alan J. Perlis
Manually managing blocks of memory in C is like juggling bars of soap in a prison shower: It's all fun and games until you forget about one of them.
Anonymous
C++ has its place in the history of programming languages. Just as Caligula has his place in the history of the Roman Empire.
Robert Firth
Sure, it's overkill. But you can never have too much overkill...
Anonymous
If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.
Cicero
Sometimes, the elegant implementation is just a function. Not a method. Not a class. Not a framework. Just a function.
John Carmack
Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use regular expressions." Now they have two problems.
Jamie Zawinski