Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.
George S. Patton
Programmers usually have good reasons for making bad decisions.
Anonymous
It’s hard to read through a book on the principles of magic without glancing at the cover periodically to make sure it isn’t a book on software design.
Bruce Tognazzini
Your code is both good and original. Unfortunately the parts that are good are not original, and the parts that are original are not good.
Anonymous
Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
Alan J. Perlis
Don't code today what you can't debug tomorrow
Anonymous
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
Processes and methodologies can make good servants but are poor masters.
Mark Dowd, John McDonald & Justin Schuh
The latest new features in C++ are designed to fix the previously new features in C++.
David Jameson
Change breaks the brittle.
Jan Houtema
I invented the term Object-Oriented, and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
Alan Kay