Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
One can't proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
Alan J. Perlis
Weeks of coding can save you hours of planning.
Anonymous
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
90% of everything is crap
Sturgeon's Revelation
In C, its easy to shoot yourself in the foot. C++ makes it more difficult, but when you do, you'll blow your whole leg off.
Stroustrup
Sure, it's overkill. But you can never have too much overkill...
Anonymous
So many good ideas are never heard from again once they embark in a voyage on the semantic gulf.
Alan J. Perlis
Nothing is more permanent than a temporary solution.
Thomas' First Law
I finally found a definition for "middleware". "Middleware" is the software nobody wants to pay for.
Chris Stone
One man's constant is another man's variable.
Alan J. Perlis