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
You can stand on the shoulders of giants OR a big enough pile of dwarfs, works either way.
Anonymous
The Internet? Is that thing still around?
Homer Simpson
Amateur programmers think there are 1000 bytes in a kilobyte; Real Programmers know there are 1024 meters in a kilometer.
Anonymous
Rules for optimization:
Michael A Jackson
1. Don't do it.
2. (for experts only) Don't do it yet.
It can scarcely be denied that the supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a single datum of experience.
Albert Einstein
The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
Harlan Ellison
Functions delay binding; data structures induce binding. Moral: Structure data late in the programming process.
Alan J. Perlis
It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all...
Larry Wall
It compiles. Ship it!
Anonymous
There will always be things we wish to say in our programs that in all known languages can only be said poorly.
Alan J. Perlis