Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The latest new features in C++ are designed to fix the previously new features in C++.
David Jameson
A good programmer looks both ways before crossing a one-way street.
Anonymous
If you use copy and paste while you're coding, you're probably committing a design error.
David Parnas
Perhaps if we wrote programs from childhood on, as adults we'd be able to read them.
Alan J. Perlis
We're even wrong about which mistakes we're making.
Carl Winfeld
If it doesn't have to work, we can do it real quick.
Watts Humphrey
Programming is not like being in the CIA; you don't get credit for being sneaky. It's more like advertising; you get lots of credit for making your connections as blatant as possible.
Steve McConnell on coupling from, "Code Complete."
I finally found a definition for "middleware". "Middleware" is the software nobody wants to pay for.
Chris Stone
PHP is a minor evil perpetrated and created by incompetent amateurs, whereas Perl is a great and insidious evil perpetrated by skilled but perverted professionals.
Jon Ribbens
Rules for optimization:
Michael A Jackson
1. Don't do it.
2. (for experts only) Don't do it yet.