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
Are you quite sure that all those bells and whistles, all those wonderful facilities of your so called powerful programming languages, belong to the solution set rather than the problem set?
Edsger W. Dijkstra
The Internet? Is that thing still around?
Homer Simpson
Computers don't introduce order anywhere as much as they expose opportunities.
Alan J. Perlis
If it doesn't work, it doesn't matter how fast it doesn't work.
Ravera's observation on premature optimization
If a listener nods his head when you're explaining your program, wake him up.
Alan J. Perlis
Good programmers learn more from "That's not what I expected!" than from getting it right the first time.
Anonymous
You can't eliminate problems, but you can make trades to get problems that you prefer over the ones you have now.
Eric Sink’s Axiom of Software Development
Java is C++ without the guns, knives, and clubs.
James Gosling
Vi is a subset of evil.
Anonymous
Software is like sex: It's better when it's free.
Linus Torvalds