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
Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
Alan J. Perlis
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
Rich Cook
A computer programmer is a device for turning coffee into bugs.
Bram Moolenaar
In a world without walls and fences, who needs Windows and Gates?
Anonymous
if you are a programmer working in 2003 and you don't know the basics of characters, character sets, encodings, and Unicode, and I catch you, I'm going to punish you by making you peel onions for 6 months in a submarine.
Joel Spolsky
Elegance is not optional.
Richard A. O'Keefe (from The Craft of Prolog)
Every language has an optimization operator. In C++ that operator is ‘//’
Anonymous
Selecting a project due date before the requirements are properly gathered is like selecting which corner you want to paint yourself into, while simultaneously negating the doorway as a viable option.
Chris Ames
Vi is a subset of evil.
Anonymous
Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.
Donald Knuth