Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
God is Real, unless declared Integer.
Anonymous
It's 5.50 a.m.... Do you know where your stack pointer is?
Anonymous
There's more than one way to do it.
Larry Wall about Perl
I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone.
Bjarne Stroustrup
I would love to change the world, but they won't give me the source code.
Anonymous
Any problem in computer science can be solved with another layer of indirection. But that usually will create another problem.
David Wheeler
It should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer would ever consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure. Basic professional ethics would instead require him to write a DestroyCity procedure, to which Baghdad could be given as a parameter.
Nathaniel S Borenstein
Three things should never be seen in the process of being created: laws, sausage, and software.
Anonymous
C++: an octopus made by nailing extra legs onto a dog.
Steve Taylor
Interfaces keep things tidy, but don't accelerate growth: Functions do.
Alan J. Perlis