Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
In My Egotistical Opinion, most people's C programs should be indented six feet downward and covered with dirt.
Blair P. Houghton
The third version is the first version that doesn't suck.
Mike Simpson
It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.
Hofstadter's Law
The greatest performance improvement of all is when a system goes from not-working to working.
John Ousterhout
... one of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs.
Robert Firth
Interfaces keep things tidy, but don't accelerate growth: Functions do.
Alan J. Perlis
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked.
John Gall
It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.
Alan J. Perlis
UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.
Dennis Ritchie
I couldn't resist the temptation to put in a null reference, simply because it was so easy to implement. This has led to innumerable errors, vulnerabilities, and system crashes, which have probably caused a billion dollars of pain and damage in the last forty years.
Tony (C.A.R.) Hoare