Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
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
To iterate is human, to recurse divine.
L. Peter Deutsch
The function of good software is to make the complex appear to be simple.
Grady Booch
I'll try to be nicer if you try to be smarter.
Assaf Nitzan
Whenever two programmers meet to criticize their programs, both are silent.
Alan J. Perlis
Hardware is the part of a system you can kick. Software is the one you can only curse at.
Anonymous
Jesus saves but only Buddha makes incremental backups.
Anonymous
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
Making something variable is easy. Controlling duration of constancy is the trick.
Alan J. Perlis
Working software is the primary measure of progress.
Agile Manifesto