Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen.
Edward V Berard
'Goto' is always evil, like in 'goto school' or 'goto work'.
Anonymous
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
Amateur programmers think there are 1000 bytes in a kilobyte; Real Programmers know there are 1024 meters in a kilometer.
Anonymous
Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.
Edsger Dijkstra
One can't proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
Alan J. Perlis
Programming is an unnatural act.
Alan J. Perlis
In computing, invariants are ephemeral.
Alan J. Perlis
In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
Alan J. Perlis
The sooner you get behind in your work, the more time you have to catch up.
Anonymous