Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Vi is a subset of evil.
Anonymous
To iterate is human, to recurse divine.
L. Peter Deutsch
It is easier to port a shell than a shell script.
Larry Wall
I couldn't resist the temptation to put in a null reference, simply because it was so easy to implement. This has led to innumerable errors, vulnerabilities, and system crashes, which have probably caused a billion dollars of pain and damage in the last forty years.
Tony (C.A.R.) Hoare
If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?
John Wooden, basketball coach
The key to performance is elegance, not battalions of special cases.
Jon Bentley and Doug McIlroy
C is quirky, flawed and an enormous success.
Dennis Ritchie
The function of good software is to make the complex appear to be simple.
Grady Booch
I think there's a world market for about five computers.
Thomas J Watson Senior, 1945
If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution.
Robert Sewell