Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
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
Some programmers try to reach higher by standing on other programmers' shoulders. Other programmers try to reach higher by standing on other programmers' toes.
Anonymous
You want a dot operator in PHP?
Matthew Leffler
eval(str_replace('.', '->', $code_with_dot_operator))
Like wine, the mastery of programming matures with time. But, unlike wine, it gets sweeter in the process.
Lawrence Mucheka
Pasting code from the Internet into production code is like chewing gum found in the street.
Anonymous
FORTRAN was the language of choice for the same reason that three-legged races are popular.
Ken Thompson
When someone says "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I wish done," give him a lollipop.
Alan J. Perlis
Beware of the Turing tar-pit in which everything is possible but nothing of interest is easy.
Alan J. Perlis
The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.
Robert R. Coveyou, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
Vincent van Gogh