Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
C trades a slap on the wrist at compile time for a knife in the back at run time.
Anonymous
[Perl] combines all the worst aspects of C and Lisp: a billion different sublanguages in one monolithic executable. It combines the power of C with the readability of PostScript.
Jamie Zawinski
If we believe in data structures, we must believe in independent (hence simultaneous) processing. For why else would we collect items within a structure? Why do we tolerate languages that give us the one without the other?
Alan J. Perlis
Must be zero, or equal to MAPI_UNICODE. In either case, however, this parameter is ignored.
MSDN
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If it's original, you'll have to ram it down their throats.
Howard Aiken
I couldn't resist the temptation to put in a null reference, simply because it was so easy to implement. This has led to innumerable errors, vulnerabilities, and system crashes, which have probably caused a billion dollars of pain and damage in the last forty years.
Tony (C.A.R.) Hoare
I would love to change the world, but they won't give me the source code.
Anonymous
If it works, leave it alone — there's no need to understand it. If it fails, try to fix it — there's no time to understand it.
Bill Pfeifer
Anyone who has a wife and small kids knows that programming belongs to the easy things in life.
Anonymous
If it doesn't work, change the documentation.
Anonymous