Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
A C program is like a fast dance on a newly waxed dance floor by people carrying razors.
Waldi Ravens
Pasting code from the Internet into production code is like chewing gum found in the street.
Anonymous
C++ is more of a rube-goldberg type thing full of high-voltages, large chain-driven gears, sharp edges, exploding widgets, and spots to get your fingers crushed. And because of it's complexity many (if not most) of it's users don't know how it works, and can't tell ahead of time what's going to cause them to loose an arm.
Grant Edwards
Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written, and another for which it wasn't.
Alan J. Perlis
Fast, Cheap, Reliable: Pick any two.
Anonymous
It's difficult to extract sense from strings, but they're the only communication coin we can count on.
Alan J. Perlis
Amateur programmers think there are 1000 bytes in a kilobyte; Real Programmers know there are 1024 meters in a kilometer.
Anonymous
The best code is no code at all.
Anonymous
A documented bug is not a bug; it is a feature.
James P. MacLennan
Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases.
Anonymous