Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
C trades a slap on the wrist at compile time for a knife in the back at run time.
Anonymous
Fifty years of programming language research, and we end up with C++ ?
Richard A. O'Keefe
Arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
Alan Kay
A computer scientist counts to ten: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 ...
Anonymous
Everyone else counts to ten: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going on to be scared.
P. J. Plauger
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction.
E.F. Schumacher
If you require information, do not free memory containing the information.
MSDN
Hardware is the part of a system you can kick. Software is the one you can only curse at.
Anonymous
In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
Alan J. Perlis
The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.
Robert R. Coveyou, Oak Ridge National Laboratory