Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
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
Computer programmers don't byte, they nibble a bit.
Anonymous
Good programmers never write what they can steal or borrow.
Jeff Atwood
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
Niels Bohr
Selecting a project due date before the requirements are properly gathered is like selecting which corner you want to paint yourself into, while simultaneously negating the doorway as a viable option.
Chris Ames
Don't code today what you can't debug tomorrow
Anonymous
The only valid measurement of code quality: WTFs / minute
Thom Holwerda
One does not learn computing by using a hand calculator, but one can forget arithmetic.
Alan J. Perlis
Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first, it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self-evident.
Arthur Schopenhauer
If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.
Robert X. Cringely