Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The latest new features in C++ are designed to fix the previously new features in C++.
David Jameson
In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can't.
Alan J. Perlis
Programmers usually have good reasons for making bad decisions.
Anonymous
Any sufficiently well-documented lisp program contains an ML program in its comments.
Anonymous
... what society overwhelmingly asks for is snake oil. Of course, the snake oil has the most impressive names — otherwise you would be selling nothing — like "Structured Analysis and Design", "Software Engineering", "Maturity Models", "Management Information Systems", "Integrated Project Support Environments" "Object Orientation" and "Business Process Re-engineering" (the latter three being known as IPSE, OO and BPR, respectively).
Edsger W. Dijkstra
The best code is no code at all.
Anonymous
Going from programming in Pascal to programming in C, is like learning to write in Morse code.
J.P. Candusso
If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?
John Wooden, basketball coach
You think you know when you can learn, are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
Alan J. Perlis
Sometimes I think the only universal in the computing field is the fetch-execute cycle.
Alan J. Perlis