Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Blame doesn't fix bugs.
Anonymous
We're even wrong about which mistakes we're making.
Carl Winfeld
Like punning, programming is a play on words.
Alan J. Perlis
Singleton is a misconcept in OOP unless it's used as a misconcepted paradigm for application development.
Anonymous
One man's constant is another man's variable.
Alan J. Perlis
Remember, a great way to avoid broken code is to have less of it. The code that you never write will work forever.
Russ Olsen
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
The cheapest, fastest, and most reliable components are those that aren't there.
Gordon Bell
Memory is like an orgasm. It's a lot better if you don't have to fake it.
Seymour Cray on virtual memory
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
Rich Cook