Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Think of compilation as cooking. Dynamic typing means the steak is juicy and still a little red, like red meat is supposed to be. Static typing means you burnt it to a crisp.
Erik Naggum
Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing until it gets there.
Josh Billings
C(++) is a write-only, high-level assembler language.
Stefan Van Baelen
In essence, let the market design the product.
Paul Graham
People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
Alan Kay
C trades a slap on the wrist at compile time for a knife in the back at run time.
Anonymous
I hate code, and I want as little of it in our product as possible.
Jack Diederich
Good software, like wine, takes time.
Joel Spolsky
Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use regular expressions." Now they have two problems.
Jamie Zawinski
Think of it this way: threads are like salt, not like pasta. You like salt, I like salt, we all like salt. But we eat more pasta.
Larry McVoy