Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
When I have a specific goal in mind and a complicated piece of code to write, I spend my time making it happen rather than telling myself stories about it.
Steve Yegge
The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague.
Edsger Dijkstra
C++ : Where friends have access to your private members.
Gavin Russell Baker
Programming languages are like girlfriends: The new one is better because you are better.
Anonymous
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MSDN
If it doesn't have to work, we can do it real quick.
Watts Humphrey
The best writing is rewriting.
E. B. White
Arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
Alan Kay
Never memorize what you can look up in books.
Albert Einstein
In order to understand recursion, one must first understand recursion.
Anonymous