Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live.
Rick Osborne
Simplicity is hard to build, easy to use, and hard to charge for. Complexity is easy to build, hard to use, and easy to charge for.
Chris Sacca
Giving pointers and threads to programmers is like giving whisky and car keys to teenagers.
P. J. O'Rourke
Tell me what you need and I'll tell you how to get along without it.
Anonymous
The idea that I can be presented with a problem, set out to logically solve it with the tools at hand, and wind up with a program that could not be legally used because someone else followed the same logical steps some years ago and filed for a patent on it is horrifying.
John Carmack on software patents
God could create the world in six days because he didn't have to make it compatible with the previous version.
Anonymous
Java is C++ without the guns, knives, and clubs.
James Gosling
Writing in C or C++ is like running a chain saw with all the safety guards removed.
Bob Gray
There is not now, nor has there ever been, nor will there ever be, any programming language in which it is the least bit difficult to write bad code.
Anonymous
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'
Isaac Asimov