Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Java is C++ without the guns, knives, and clubs.
James Gosling
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
The computer is the ultimate polluter: its feces are indistinguish- able from the food it produces.
Alan J. Perlis
I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone.
Bjarne Stroustrup
We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat's next-to-last theorem.
Alan J. Perlis
A well-written program is its own heaven; a poorly-written program is its own hell.
Tao of Programming
If it doesn't work, it doesn't matter how fast it doesn't work.
Ravera's observation on premature optimization
For systems, the analogue of a face-lift is to add to the control graph an edge that creates a cycle, not just an additional node.
Alan J. Perlis
The future will be like the past, because in the past the future was like the past.
About estimations
"It depends" is the answer to all good software engineering questions, but to be a good software engineer, you should know on what it depends, and why.
Anonymous