Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
C trades a slap on the wrist at compile time for a knife in the back at run time.
Anonymous
A C program is like a fast dance on a newly waxed dance floor by people carrying razors.
Waldi Ravens
One Page Principle: A specification that will not fit on one page of 8.5x11 inch paper cannot be understood.
Mark Ardis
Programming can be fun, so can cryptography; however they should not be combined.
Kreitzberg and Shneiderman
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Thomas A. Edison
As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.
Dave Parnas
All parts should go together without forcing. You must remember that the parts you are reassembling were disassembled by you. Therefore, if you can't get them together again, there must be a reason. By all means, do not use a hammer.
IBM Manual, 1925
Java. The elegant simplicity of C++. The blazing speed of Smalltalk.
Anonymous
You can't communicate complexity, only an awareness of it.
Alan J. Perlis
A program without a loop and a structured variable isn't worth writing.
Alan J. Perlis