Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
There are 10 types of people. Those who can read ternary, those who can't and those who mistake it for binary.
Anonymous
A well-written program is its own heaven; a poorly-written program is its own hell.
Tao of Programming
Design bugs are often subtle and occur by evolution with early assumptions being forgotten as new features or uses are added to a system.
Fernando J. Corbató
The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures.
Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
Alan J. Perlis
C(++) is a write-only, high-level assembler language.
Stefan Van Baelen
To iterate is human, to recurse divine.
L. Peter Deutsch
I will not be a lemming and follow the crowd over the cliff and into the C.
John Beidler
If you require information, do not free memory containing the information.
MSDN
'Goto' is always evil, like in 'goto school' or 'goto work'.
Anonymous