Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
FORTRAN, the infantile disorder, by now nearly 20 years old, is hopelessly inadequate for whatever computer application you have in mind today: it is now too clumsy, too risky, and too expensive to use.
E. W. Dijkstra
Good enough is neither.
Jim Spivey
When a professional race car driver races, his pulse gets lower and he relaxes.
Jun-ichiro Hagino
When I code it is the same thing.
The latest new features in C++ are designed to fix the previously new features in C++.
David Jameson
Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.
Alan Kay
With all due respect John, I am the head of IT and I have it on good authority. If you type "Google" into Google, you can break the Internet.
Jen, "The IT Crowd"
Perhaps if we wrote programs from childhood on, as adults we'd be able to read them.
Alan J. Perlis
There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
Jeremy S. Anderson
C++ is to C as Lung Cancer is to Lung.
Anonymous
Sure, it's overkill. But you can never have too much overkill...
Anonymous