Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Just don't create a file called -rf.
Larry Wall
He who hasn't hacked assembly language as a youth has no heart. He who does as an adult has no brain.
John Moore
Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from a rigged demonstration.
Anonymous
C++ is an horrible language. Even if the choice of C were to do *nothing* but keep the C++ programmers out, that in itself would be a huge reason to use C.
Linus Torvalds
Whenever two programmers meet to criticize their programs, both are silent.
Alan J. Perlis
Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.
Donald Knuth
Get into a rut early: Do the same process the same way. Accumulate idioms. Standardize. The only difference(!) between Shakespeare and you was the size of his idiom list - not the size of his vocabulary.
Alan J. Perlis
The sooner we start coding fewer frameworks and more programs the sooner we’ll become better programmers.
Warped Java Guy Elementary Java Solutions
Jesus saves but only Buddha makes incremental backups.
Anonymous
I was a C++ programmer before I started designing Ruby. I programmed in C++ exclusively for two or three years. And after two years of C++ programming, it still surprised me.
Matz