Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
There's no test like production.
Anonymous
Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.
Donald Knuth
Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter.
Eric Raymond
All programming is an exercise in caching.
Terje Mathisen
UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.
Dennis Ritchie
There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use.
Freeman Dyson
Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
Alan J. Perlis
Fifty years of programming language research, and we end up with C++ ?
Richard A. O'Keefe
Java. The elegant simplicity of C++. The blazing speed of Smalltalk.
Anonymous
I was a C++ programmer before I started designing Ruby. I programmed in C++ exclusively for two or three years. And after two years of C++ programming, it still surprised me.
Matz