Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
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
Java is a DSL to transform big Xml documents into long exception stack traces.
Scott Bellware
Remember, a great way to avoid broken code is to have less of it. The code that you never write will work forever.
Russ Olsen
In order to understand recursion, one must first understand recursion.
Anonymous
Change breaks the brittle.
Jan Houtema
In computing, invariants are ephemeral.
Alan J. Perlis
Computers are getting smarter all the time. Scientists tell us that soon they will be able to talk to us. (And by 'they', I mean 'computers'. I doubt scientists will ever be able to talk to us.)
Dave Barry
Like punning, programming is a play on words.
Alan J. Perlis
The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.
Oswald Chambers
The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague.
Edsger Dijkstra