Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.
Cicero
Human beings are not accustomed to being perfect, and few areas of human activity demand it. Adjusting to the requirement for perfection is, I think, the most difficult part of learning to program.
Anonymous
Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction: One, it's completely impossible. Two, it's possible, but it's not worth doing. Three, I said it was a good idea all along.
Arthur C. Clarke
C++: an octopus made by nailing extra legs onto a dog.
Steve Taylor
It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program. What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail and learning to be self-critical?
Alan J. Perlis
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Thomas A. Edison
They have computers, and they may have other weapons of mass destruction.
Janet Reno
If we believe in data structures, we must believe in independent (hence simultaneous) processing. For why else would we collect items within a structure? Why do we tolerate languages that give us the one without the other?
Alan J. Perlis
Any code of your own that you haven't looked at for six or more months might as well have been written by someone else.
Eagleson's Law
Rules for optimization:
Michael A Jackson
1. Don't do it.
2. (for experts only) Don't do it yet.