Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The time machine's software will have a recursive main method.
Anonymous
Starting a startup is hard, but having a 9 to 5 job is hard too, and in some ways a worse kind of hard.
Paul Graham
Fifty years of programming language research, and we end up with C++ ?
Richard A. O'Keefe
A computer programmer is a device for turning coffee into bugs.
Bram Moolenaar
Think of all the psychic energy expended in seeking a fundamental distinction between "algorithm" and "program".
Alan J. Perlis
If C didn't exist, we would be programming in OBOL, PASAL or BASI
Anonymous
The latest new features in C++ are designed to fix the previously new features in C++.
David Jameson
Whereas Europeans generally pronounce my name the right way ('Nick-louse Veert'), Americans invariably mangle it into 'Nickel's Worth.' This is to say that Europeans call me by name, but Americans call me by value.
Niklaus Wirth
XML is like violence - if it's not working for you, you're not using enough of it.
Anonymous
If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.
Robert X. Cringely