Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If you require information, do not free memory containing the information.
MSDN
Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter.
Eric Raymond
The cybernetic exchange between man, computer and algorithm is like a game of musical chairs: The frantic search for balance always leaves one of the three standing ill at ease.
Alan J. Perlis
Code is never finished, only abandoned.
Anonymous
PHP is a minor evil perpetrated and created by incompetent amateurs, whereas Perl is a great and insidious evil perpetrated by skilled but perverted professionals.
Jon Ribbens
To iterate is human, to recurse divine.
L. Peter Deutsch
If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.
Robert X. Cringely
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
Isaac Asimov
I've never written the best code I've ever written.
Anonymous
It takes an intelligent person to build something complex; it takes a genius to build something simple.
Anonymous