Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
So many good ideas are never heard from again once they embark in a voyage on the semantic gulf.
Alan J. Perlis
In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they're not.
Anonymous
If you require information, do not free memory containing the information.
MSDN
There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.
Bjarne Stroustrup
There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.
Bjarne Stroustrup
If you can imagine a society in which the computer - robot is the only menial, you can imagine anything.
Alan J. Perlis
The idea that I can be presented with a problem, set out to logically solve it with the tools at hand, and wind up with a program that could not be legally used because someone else followed the same logical steps some years ago and filed for a patent on it is horrifying.
John Carmack on software patents
Organizations which design systems are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations.
Conway's Law
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
Hanlon's Razor
If our customers wanted a product that worked that way, tell them to purchase a product that works that way.
Anonymous