Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Every language has an optimization operator. In C++ that operator is ‘//’
Anonymous
C: a language that combines all the elegance and power of assembly language with all the readability and maintainability of assembly language.
Anonymous
When a professional race car driver races, his pulse gets lower and he relaxes.
Jun-ichiro Hagino
When I code it is the same thing.
Test driven development is like eating watermelon. Slice it up and work in sections at a time; eat all the red until all you have left is green.
Terry L Thompson
The reason we plan ahead is so that we don't have to do anything right now.
Anonymous
Good design adds value faster than it adds cost.
Thomas C. Gale
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
E. W. Dijkstra
Think of all the psychic energy expended in seeking a fundamental distinction between "algorithm" and "program".
Alan J. Perlis
Java is C++ without the guns, knives, and clubs.
James Gosling
Theory is when you know something, but it doesn't work. Practice is when something works, but you don't know why. Programmers combine theory and practice: Nothing works and they don't know why.
Anonymous