Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that it's all learned.
Bruce Ediger
Change breaks the brittle.
Jan Houtema
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
Think of it this way: threads are like salt, not like pasta. You like salt, I like salt, we all like salt. But we eat more pasta.
Larry McVoy
Making something variable is easy. Controlling duration of constancy is the trick.
Alan J. Perlis
The future will be like the past, because in the past the future was like the past.
About estimations
Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.
Alan J. Perlis
One programmer can do in one day what two programmers can do in two.
Anonymous
If you're going to break it, then break it good. Break everything. Get to the very front of the line. Don't like move up a couple of slots. That's pointless.
Anders Hejlsberg
When in doubt, leave it out.
Joshua Bloch