Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
One programmer can do in one day what two programmers can do in two.
Anonymous
... one of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs.
Robert Firth
Software is either testable or detestable.
Anonymous
Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches: Banality soothes our nerves.
Alan J. Perlis
C++ is to C as Lung Cancer is to Lung.
Anonymous
In order to understand recursion, one must first understand recursion.
Anonymous
The best writing is rewriting.
E. B. White
Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.
Cory Doctorow
A good system can't have a weak command language.
Alan J. Perlis
C(++) is a write-only, high-level assembler language.
Stefan Van Baelen