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
If you lie to the compiler, it will get its revenge.
Henry Spencere
The more bizarre the behavior, the more stupid the mistake.
Ed's Law of Debugging
When I have a specific goal in mind and a complicated piece of code to write, I spend my time making it happen rather than telling myself stories about it.
Steve Yegge
I have found that the reason a lot of people are interested in artificial intelligence is the same reason a lot of people are interested in artificial limbs: they are missing one.
David Parnas
Only in wealth, there is room for a bad idea.
Jasper van der Meer
There is nothing quite so permanent as a quick fix.
Anonymous
Think of all the psychic energy expended in seeking a fundamental distinction between "algorithm" and "program".
Alan J. Perlis
Computation has made the tree flower.
Alan J. Perlis
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
Pablo Picasso
...basically, avoid comments. If your code needs a comment to be understood, it would be better to rewrite it so it's easier to understand.
Rob Pike