Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Fifty years of programming language research, and we end up with C++ ?
Richard A. O'Keefe
When in doubt, leave it out.
Joshua Bloch
Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.
Andy Rooney
It’s hard to read through a book on the principles of magic without glancing at the cover periodically to make sure it isn’t a book on software design.
Bruce Tognazzini
Web Development is a lot like kickboxing: You have to watch your cookies.
Anonymous
A logician trying to explain logic to a programmer is like a cat trying to explain to a fish what it's like to get wet.
Anonymous
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
Niels Bohr
I invented the term Object-Oriented, and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
Alan Kay
Some programmers, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use floating point arithmetic." Now they have 1.999999999997 problems.
Tom Scott
Engineering is the art of doing with one dollar what any damn fool can do with two.
From Space Systems Failures by David M. Harland and Ralph D. Lorenz