Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
Vincent van Gogh
The latest new features in C++ are designed to fix the previously new features in C++.
David Jameson
If you use copy and paste while you're coding, you're probably committing a design error.
David Parnas
The computer reminds one of Lon Chaney -- it is the machine of a thousand faces.
Alan J. Perlis
In C, its easy to shoot yourself in the foot. C++ makes it more difficult, but when you do, you'll blow your whole leg off.
Stroustrup
It's difficult to extract sense from strings, but they're the only communication coin we can count on.
Alan J. Perlis
The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures.
Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
Alan J. Perlis
Testing like the TSA.
David Heinemeier Hansson on testing too much
Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration.
Stan Kelly-Bootle