Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
Alan J. Perlis
There is no programming language, no matter how structured, that will prevent programmers from making bad programs.
Larry Flon
Fifty years of programming language research, and we end up with C++ ?
Richard A. O'Keefe
The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.
Robert R. Coveyou, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written, and another for which it wasn't.
Alan J. Perlis
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
Editing is a rewording activity.
Alan J. Perlis
The goal is to deliver clean code that works - now.
Kent Beck
It's 5.50 a.m.... Do you know where your stack pointer is?
Anonymous
The latest new features in C++ are designed to fix the previously new features in C++.
David Jameson