Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
It's OK to figure out murder mysteries, but you shouldn't need to figure out code. You should be able to read it.
Steve McConnell
C is to programming as Latin is to literature.
Anonymous
You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.
Alan J. Perlis
Make it correct,
Wes Dyer
make it clear,
make it concise,
make it fast.
In that order.
It's 5.50 a.m.... Do you know where your stack pointer is?
Anonymous
I hate code, and I want as little of it in our product as possible.
Jack Diederich
You might as well pay your customers 50K because they are just your QA.
Juixe TechKnow
Ever spend a little time reading comp.lang.c++ ? That's really the best place to learn about the number of C++ users looking for a better language.
R. William Beckwith
"It depends" is the answer to all good software engineering questions, but to be a good software engineer, you should know on what it depends, and why.
Anonymous
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