Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program. What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail and learning to be self-critical?
Alan J. Perlis
Multi-threading is the art of screwing things up before, during or after something else.
Anonymous
Though a program be but three lines long, someday it will have to be maintained.
Tao Of Programming
Manually managing blocks of memory in C is like juggling bars of soap in a prison shower: It's all fun and games until you forget about one of them.
Anonymous
A programmer never dies he just degrades gracefully.
Anonymous
Multitasking is the art of distracting yourself from two things you’d rather not be doing by doing them simultaneously.
Anonymous
It's 5.50 a.m.... Do you know where your stack pointer is?
Anonymous
If you can't explain something to a six-year-old, you really don't understand it yourself.
Albert Einstein
Java is C++ without the guns, knives, and clubs.
James Gosling
You can't eliminate problems, but you can make trades to get problems that you prefer over the ones you have now.
Eric Sink’s Axiom of Software Development