Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Java. The elegant simplicity of C++. The blazing speed of Smalltalk.
Anonymous
A logician trying to explain logic to a programmer is like a cat trying to explain to a fish what it's like to get wet.
Anonymous
Good programmers never write what they can steal or borrow.
Jeff Atwood
A good system can't have a weak command language.
Alan J. Perlis
C++ is an horrible language. Even if the choice of C were to do *nothing* but keep the C++ programmers out, that in itself would be a huge reason to use C.
Linus Torvalds
Documentation is like sex. When it's good, it's fantastic. When it's bad, it's still better than nothing.
Anonymous
Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them.
Alan J. Perlis
Think of compilation as cooking. Dynamic typing means the steak is juicy and still a little red, like red meat is supposed to be. Static typing means you burnt it to a crisp.
Erik Naggum
Sometimes, the elegant implementation is just a function. Not a method. Not a class. Not a framework. Just a function.
John Carmack
There's a fine line between being on the leading edge and being in the lunatic fringe.
Frank Armstrong