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
C is to programming as Latin is to literature.
Anonymous
In my experience, one of the most significant problems in software development is assuming. If you assume a method will passed the right parameter value, the method will fail.
Paul M. Duvall
I get as much enjoyment from trashing code as I do from scratching it out in the first place!
Anonymous
Any technology that surpasses 50% penetration will never double again (in any number of months).
Peter Norvig's law
If you get it free, it is worthless. If you pay for it, it has value. If you build it yourself, it is priceless.
Raj More
Java is C++ without the guns, knives, and clubs.
James Gosling
Beware of the Turing tar-pit in which everything is possible but nothing of interest is easy.
Alan J. Perlis
I hate code, and I want as little of it in our product as possible.
Jack Diederich
The first 90% of the code accounts for the first 90% of the development time. The remaining 10% of the code accounts for the other 90% of the development time.
Tom Cargill
I’ve finally learned what ‘upward compatible’ means. It means we get to keep all our old mistakes.
Dennie van Tassel