Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The evolution of languages: FORTRAN is a non-typed language. C is a weakly typed language. Ada is a strongly typed language. C++ is a strongly hyped language.
Ron Sercely
If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.
Cicero
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
Vincent van Gogh
Profanity is the one language all programmers know best.
Anonymous
Never memorize what you can look up in books.
Albert Einstein
Interfaces keep things tidy, but don't accelerate growth: Functions do.
Alan J. Perlis
Rules are for the obedience of the inexperienced and the guidance of the wise.
Anonymous
Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to rewrite (and reuse).
Eric Raymond
I’ve finally learned what ‘upward compatible’ means. It means we get to keep all our old mistakes.
Dennie van Tassel
Don't code today what you can't debug tomorrow
Anonymous
Arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
Alan Kay