Computer Quote by Larry Wall

C is a razor-sharp tool, with which one can create an elegant and efficient program or a bloody mess.

— Brian Kernighan

Quite frankly, even if the choice of C were to do *nothing* but keep the C++ programmers out, that in itself would be a…

— Linus Torvalds

In programming, it’s often the buts in the specification that kill you.

— Boris Beizer

Well, take it from an old hand: the only reason it would be easier to program in C is that you can't easily express…

— Erik Naggum

I was eventually persuaded of the need to design programming notations so as to maximize the number of errors which cannot be made, or…

— Tony Hoare

“There are only 2 hard things in programming: naming, cache invalidation, and off-by-one-errors.”

— Mattt Thompson

Voodoo Programming: Things programmers do that they know shouldn't work but they try anyway, and which sometimes actually work, such as recompiling everything.

— Karl Lehenbauer

It combines the power of C with the readability of PostScript.

— Jamie Zawinski

Trying to outsmart a compiler defeats much of the purpose of using one.

— Brian Kernighan

C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.

— Alan Perlis

“complicated code is a sign that you don't understand your program well enough to make it simple.”

— Steve McConnell

If you don't know how compilers work, then you don't know how computers work.

— Steve Yegge