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 might as well pay your customers 50K because they are just your QA.
Juixe TechKnow
Java is C++ without the guns, knives, and clubs.
James Gosling
The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
Harlan Ellison
Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.
From SICP
In software systems, it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
Alan J. Perlis
Giving pointers and threads to programmers is like giving whisky and car keys to teenagers.
P. J. O'Rourke
In C, its easy to shoot yourself in the foot. C++ makes it more difficult, but when you do, you'll blow your whole leg off.
Stroustrup
My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going on to be scared.
P. J. Plauger
People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
Alan Kay
Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.
Alan J. Perlis