Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
Alan J. Perlis
Going from programming in Pascal to programming in C, is like learning to write in Morse code.
J.P. Candusso
If you want to confuse your enemies, give them the source code. If you want to really confuse them, give them the documentation.
Anonymous
Fifty years of programming language research, and we end up with C++ ?
Richard A. O'Keefe
Interfaces keep things tidy, but don't accelerate growth: Functions do.
Alan J. Perlis
One programmer can do in one day what two programmers can do in two.
Anonymous
Code is everything I thought poetry was, back when we were in school. Clean, expressive, urgent, all-encompassing. Fourteen lines can open up to fill the available universe.
Richard Powers
When it comes to code it never pays to rush.
Marick's Law
C++ is to C as Lung Cancer is to Lung.
Anonymous
Wherever there is modularity there is the potential for misunderstanding: Hiding information implies a need to check communication.
Alan J. Perlis