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
Lines of code are only worth counting, when time has come to delete them.
Anonymous
Brevity is the soul of wit.
Shakespeare
There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.
Bjarne Stroustrup
Editing is a rewording activity.
Alan J. Perlis
If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
Alan J. Perlis
Use four digits. A new millenium is coming.
Jon Bentley (1976)
Think of compilation as cooking. Dynamic typing means the steak is juicy and still a little red, like red meat is supposed to be. Static typing means you burnt it to a crisp.
Erik Naggum
Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases.
Anonymous
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
E. W. Dijkstra
With all due respect John, I am the head of IT and I have it on good authority. If you type "Google" into Google, you can break the Internet.
Jen, "The IT Crowd"