Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
It's OK to figure out murder mysteries, but you shouldn't need to figure out code. You should be able to read it.
Steve McConnell
Writing in C or C++ is like running a chain saw with all the safety guards removed.
Bob Gray
If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?
John Wooden, basketball coach
What I cannot build, I do not understand.
Richard Feynman
There is no IRL, only AFK
Anonymous
I will not be a lemming and follow the crowd over the cliff and into the C.
John Beidler
Compatibility means deliberately repeating other people's mistakes.
Anonymous
On the 7th day ... God began debugging.
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
Whenever two programmers meet to criticize their programs, both are silent.
Alan J. Perlis