Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
A good programmer looks both ways before crossing a one-way street.
Anonymous
C++ has its place in the history of programming languages. Just as Caligula has his place in the history of the Roman Empire.
Robert Firth
Any code of your own that you haven't looked at for six or more months might as well have been written by someone else.
Eagleson's Law
To iterate is human, to recurse divine.
L. Peter Deutsch
Inside every complex program is a simple program trying to get out.
Anonymous
It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC. As potential programmers, they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.
E. W. Dijkstra
Lines of code are only worth counting, when time has come to delete them.
Anonymous
If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
Alan J. Perlis
Every language has an optimization operator. In C++ that operator is ‘//’
Anonymous
A documented bug is not a bug; it is a feature.
James P. MacLennan