Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Within a computer natural language is unnatural.
Alan J. Perlis
Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.
Anonymous
Every language has an optimization operator. In C++ that operator is ‘//’
Anonymous
Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches: Banality soothes our nerves.
Alan J. Perlis
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
Rich Cook
Multitasking is the art of distracting yourself from two things you’d rather not be doing by doing them simultaneously.
Anonymous
C++ is to C as Lung Cancer is to Lung.
Anonymous
Code reuse is the Holy Grail of Software Engineering.
Douglas Crockford
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
Alan J. Perlis
An idiot with a computer is a faster, better idiot.
Rich Julius