Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Complexity has nothing to do with intelligence, simplicity does.
Larry Bossidy
The sooner you get behind in your work, the more time you have to catch up.
Anonymous
There are 10 types of people in the world, those who can read binary, and those who can't.
Anonymous
If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
Alan J. Perlis
Good programmers never write what they can steal or borrow.
Jeff Atwood
The primary duty of an exception handler is to get the error out of the lap of the programmer and into the surprised face of the user. Provided you keep this cardinal rule in mind, you can't go far wrong.
Verity Stob
It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all...
Larry Wall
UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.
Dennis Ritchie
C++ is an horrible language. Even if the choice of C were to do *nothing* but keep the C++ programmers out, that in itself would be a huge reason to use C.
Linus Torvalds
Any set of procedures, no matter how well intentioned or useful, that are too difficult to follow, will be circumvented.
Ravera's First Law of System Administration