Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Every language has an optimization operator. In C++ that operator is ‘//’
Anonymous
Bringing computers into the home won't change either one, but may revitalize the corner saloon.
Alan J. Perlis
A good system can't have a weak command language.
Alan J. Perlis
The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late."
Seymour Cray
In the good old days physicists repeated each other's experiments, just to be sure. Today they stick to FORTRAN, so that they can share each other's programs, bugs included.
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Giving pointers and threads to programmers is like giving whisky and car keys to teenagers.
P. J. O'Rourke
The first 90% of the code accounts for the first 90% of the development time. The remaining 10% of the code accounts for the other 90% of the development time.
Tom Cargill
Saying that Java is good because it works on all platforms is like saying anal sex is good because it works on all genders.
Anonymous
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked.
John Gall
Perl - The only language that looks the same before and after RSA encryption.
Keith Bostic