Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Systems have sub-systems and sub-systems have sub- systems and so on ad infinitum - which is why we're always starting over.
Alan J. Perlis
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
Isaac Asimov
A program without a loop and a structured variable isn't worth writing.
Alan J. Perlis
A C program is like a fast dance on a newly waxed dance floor by people carrying razors.
Waldi Ravens
An adequate bootstrap is a contradiction in terms.
Alan J. Perlis
C++ is more of a rube-goldberg type thing full of high-voltages, large chain-driven gears, sharp edges, exploding widgets, and spots to get your fingers crushed. And because of it's complexity many (if not most) of it's users don't know how it works, and can't tell ahead of time what's going to cause them to loose an arm.
Grant Edwards
The future will be like the past, because in the past the future was like the past.
About estimations
Code is never finished, only abandoned.
Anonymous
Real Programmers don't comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand.
Anonymous
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