Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
C++ is to C as Lung Cancer is to Lung.
Anonymous
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
Vincent van Gogh
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
Arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
Alan Kay
Java is C++ without the guns, knives, and clubs.
James Gosling
True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read.
Pliny the Elder
There are only two industries that refer to their customers as users: the computer industry and the drug trade.
Edward Tufte
Processes and methodologies can make good servants but are poor masters.
Mark Dowd, John McDonald & Justin Schuh
It's hard enough to find an error in your code when you're looking for it; it's even harder when you've assumed your code is error-free.
Steve McConnell
The reason we plan ahead is so that we don't have to do anything right now.
Anonymous