Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
All real programmers know C of course.
Jeff Atwood
Any technology that surpasses 50% penetration will never double again (in any number of months).
Peter Norvig's law
Java is C++ without the guns, knives, and clubs.
James Gosling
In the good old days physicists repeated each other's experiments, just to be sure. Today they stick to FORTRAN, so that they can share each other's programs, bugs included.
Edsger W. Dijkstra
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
Debugging is anticipated with distaste, performed with reluctance, and bragged about forever.
Dan Kaminsky
Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.
Edsger Dijkstra
This is important, and a little hard to understand. English is useful because it's a mess. Since English is a mess, it maps well onto the problem space, which is also a mess, which we call reality. Similarly, Perl was designed to be a mess (though in the nicest of possible ways).
Larry Wall
It seems to me you can program with discipline or you can program with bondage and discipline. You can't avoid the discipline either way, but bondage appeals to some people.
Patrick Logan
True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read.
Pliny the Elder