Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
It is the user who should parameterize procedures, not their creators.
Alan J. Perlis
C++ is an horrible language. Even if the choice of C were to do *nothing* but keep the C++ programmers out, that in itself would be a huge reason to use C.
Linus Torvalds
'Goto' is always evil, like in 'goto school' or 'goto work'.
Anonymous
In a 5 year period we get one superb programming language. Only we can't control when the 5 year period will be.
Alan J. Perlis
If you can build it, your users can break it.
Anonymous
If you want to set off and go develop some grand new thing, you don't need millions of dollars of capitalization. You need enough pizza and Diet Coke to stick in your refrigerator, a cheap PC to work on and the dedication to go through with it.
John Carmack
In order to understand recursion, one must first understand recursion.
Anonymous
If you get it free, it is worthless. If you pay for it, it has value. If you build it yourself, it is priceless.
Raj More
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
Make something fool-proof and someone will make a better fool.
Anonymous