Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Saying that Java is good because it works on all platforms is like saying anal sex is good because it works on all genders.
Anonymous
Anyone who considers arithmetic methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin.
John von Neumann
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
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
Alan J. Perlis
Pasting code from the Internet into production code is like chewing gum found in the street.
Anonymous
Must be zero, or equal to MAPI_UNICODE. In either case, however, this parameter is ignored.
MSDN
The time machine's software will have a recursive main method.
Anonymous
Fifty years of programming language research, and we end up with C++ ?
Richard A. O'Keefe
A good system can't have a weak command language.
Alan J. Perlis
Though a program be but three lines long, someday it will have to be maintained.
Tao Of Programming