Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
When in doubt, leave it out.
Joshua Bloch
Anything that can go wrong will go wrong, anything that can't go wrong will go wrong anyway.
Anonymous
Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
Alan J. Perlis
C++ is more of a rube-goldberg type thing full of high-voltages, large chain-driven gears, sharp edges, exploding widgets, and spots to get your fingers crushed. And because of it's complexity many (if not most) of it's users don't know how it works, and can't tell ahead of time what's going to cause them to loose an arm.
Grant Edwards
All problems in computer science can be solved with another level of indirection.
David Wheeler
There are 10 types of people in the world, those who can read binary, and those who can't.
Anonymous
... one of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs.
Robert Firth
Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.
Bill Gates
There are only two industries that refer to their customers as users: the computer industry and the drug trade.
Edward Tufte
It is not a language's weakness but its strengths that control the gradient of its change: Alas, a language never escapes its embryonic sac.
Alan J. Perlis