Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Manually managing blocks of memory in C is like juggling bars of soap in a prison shower: It's all fun and games until you forget about one of them.
Anonymous
The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
Harlan Ellison
Programmers usually have good reasons for making bad decisions.
Anonymous
There is nothing quite so permanent as a quick fix.
Anonymous
As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought.
Maurice Wilkes
An ideal world is left as an exercise to the reader.
From Paul Graham's "On Lisp"
In essence, let the market design the product.
Paul Graham
Manually managing blocks of memory in C is like juggling bars of soap in a prison shower: It's all fun and games until you forget about one of them.
Anonymous
Shipping is a feature.
Richard Campbell
Your code is both good and original. Unfortunately the parts that are good are not original, and the parts that are original are not good.
Anonymous
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