Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought.
Maurice Wilkes
Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to rewrite (and reuse).
Eric Raymond
Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them.
Alan J. Perlis
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
Some programmers, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use floating point arithmetic." Now they have 1.999999999997 problems.
Tom Scott
Programming languages are like girlfriends: The new one is better because you are better.
Anonymous
C++: an octopus made by nailing extra legs onto a dog.
Steve Taylor
So many good ideas are never heard from again once they embark in a voyage on the semantic gulf.
Alan J. Perlis
It is easier to port a shell than a shell script.
Larry Wall
'Goto' is always evil, like in 'goto school' or 'goto work'.
Anonymous