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
"It depends" is the answer to all good software engineering questions, but to be a good software engineer, you should know on what it depends, and why.
Anonymous
C++: an octopus made by nailing extra legs onto a dog.
Steve Taylor
Sometimes I think the only universal in the computing field is the fetch-execute cycle.
Alan J. Perlis
Programming is like sex: one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life.
Michael Sinz
In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word "frustration".
Alan J. Perlis
The most important computer is the one that rages in our skulls and ever seeks that satisfactory external emulator. The standarization of real computers would be a disaster - and so it probably won't happen.
Alan J. Perlis
Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to rewrite (and reuse).
Eric Raymond
I (...) am rarely happier than when spending an entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that would otherwise take me a good ten seconds to do by hand.
Douglas Adams
A well-written program is its own heaven; a poorly-written program is its own hell.
Tao of Programming
Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.
Martin Fowler