Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use.
Freeman Dyson
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
A logician trying to explain logic to a programmer is like a cat trying to explain to a fish what it's like to get wet.
Anonymous
Every language has an optimization operator. In C++ that operator is ‘//’
Anonymous
Owning a computer without programming is like having a kitchen and using only the microwave oven.
Charles Petzold
Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
Isaac Asimov
Good judgement is the result of experience ... Experience is the result of bad judgement.
Fred Brooks
As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought.
Maurice Wilkes
Only in wealth, there is room for a bad idea.
Jasper van der Meer
Development has two outputs... Code & Bugs
Anonymous