Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Shipping is a feature.
Richard Campbell
I finally found a definition for "middleware". "Middleware" is the software nobody wants to pay for.
Chris Stone
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
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
Alan J. Perlis
As soon as you agree on the number of spaces for indentation, no-one argues for tabs.
Alvar Lumberg
If it doesn't work, it doesn't matter how fast it doesn't work.
Ravera's observation on premature optimization
The use of a program to prove the 4-color theorem will not change mathematics - it merely demonstrates that the theorem, a challenge for a century, is probably not important to mathematics.
Alan J. Perlis
You have to "solve" the problem once in order to clearly define it and then solve it again to create a solution that works.
Anonymous
The third version is the first version that doesn't suck.
Mike Simpson
The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents.
Nathaniel Borenstein