Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If you lie to the compiler, it will get its revenge.
Henry Spencere
Over the centuries the Indians developed sign language for communicating phenomena of interest. Programmers from different tribes (FORTRAN, LISP, ALGOL, SNOBOL, etc.) could use one that doesn't require them to carry a blackboard on their ponies.
Alan J. Perlis
"It depends" is the answer to all good software engineering questions, but to be a good software engineer, you should know on what it depends, and why.
Anonymous
I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone.
Bjarne Stroustrup
We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil.
Donald Knuth
I think Microsoft named .Net so it wouldn't show up in a Unix directory listing.
Oktal
If you want to confuse your enemies, give them the source code. If you want to really confuse them, give them the documentation.
Anonymous
There is no programming language, no matter how structured, that will prevent programmers from making bad programs.
Larry Flon
UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.
Dennis Ritchie
Fight code entropy.
John Carmack