Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Every language has an optimization operator. In C++ that operator is ‘//’
Anonymous
Engineering is the art of doing with one dollar what any damn fool can do with two.
From Space Systems Failures by David M. Harland and Ralph D. Lorenz
God did not create the world in seven days; for six days he screwed around and then pulled an all-nighter.
Anonymous
It's OK to figure out murder mysteries, but you shouldn't need to figure out code. You should be able to read it.
Steve McConnell
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
There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use.
Freeman Dyson
Software is either testable or detestable.
Anonymous
Like a gas, software expands to fill its containing memory completely.
Anonymous
The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
You start writing code, I'll go see what the customer wants
Anonymous