Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Memory is like an orgasm. It's a lot better if you don't have to fake it.
Seymour Cray on virtual memory
If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.
Cicero
Anyone who has a wife and small kids knows that programming belongs to the easy things in life.
Anonymous
As Will Rogers would have said, "There is no such thing as a free variable."
Alan J. Perlis
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Antoine de Saint Exupéry
Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.
Alan J. Perlis
It compiles. Ship it!
Anonymous
One programmer can do in one day what two programmers can do in two.
Anonymous
An adequate bootstrap is a contradiction in terms.
Alan J. Perlis
Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
Alan J. Perlis
The object-oriented model makes it easy to build up programs by accretion. What this often means, in practice, is that it provides a structured way to write spaghetti code.
Paul Graham