Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
I invented the term Object-Oriented, and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
Alan Kay
Programming is like sex: one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life.
Michael Sinz
The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offence.
Edsger Dijkstra
I don't care if it works on your machine! We are not shipping your machine!
Ovidiu Platon
It is not the computer's fault that Maxwell's equations are not adequate to design the electric motor.
Alan J. Perlis
If at first you don't succeed, try/catch, try/catch again.
Anonymous
It is easier to port a shell than a shell script.
Larry Wall
In My Egotistical Opinion, most people's C programs should be indented six feet downward and covered with dirt.
Blair P. Houghton
Sure, it's overkill. But you can never have too much overkill...
Anonymous
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Antoine de Saint Exupéry