Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
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
There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult.
C.A.R. Hoare.
There are 10 types of people in the world, those who can read binary, and those who can't.
Anonymous
There's no test like production.
Anonymous
If we're supposed to work in Hex, why have we only got A fingers?
Anonymous
If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.
Edsger Dijkstra
So many good ideas are never heard from again once they embark in a voyage on the semantic gulf.
Alan J. Perlis
In My Egotistical Opinion, most people's C programs should be indented six feet downward and covered with dirt.
Blair P. Houghton
You can't solve social problems through technical means.
Anonymous
We have the mini and the micro computer. In what semantic niche would the pico computer fall?
Alan J. Perlis