Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
No code is faster than no code.
Anonymous
The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late."
Seymour Cray
C: a language that combines all the elegance and power of assembly language with all the readability and maintainability of assembly language.
Anonymous
It's hard enough to find an error in your code when you're looking for it; it's even harder when you've assumed your code is error-free.
Steve McConnell
To understand a program you must become both the machine and the program.
Alan J. Perlis
Before software should be reusable, it should be usable.
Ralph Johnson
If you lie to the compiler, it will get its revenge.
Henry Spencere
The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.
Robert R. Coveyou, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Purely applicative languages are poorly applicable.
Alan J. Perlis
C(++) is a write-only, high-level assembler language.
Stefan Van Baelen