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 we believe in data structures, we must believe in independent (hence simultaneous) processing. For why else would we collect items within a structure? Why do we tolerate languages that give us the one without the other?
Alan J. Perlis
We're even wrong about which mistakes we're making.
Carl Winfeld
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
A well-written program is its own heaven; a poorly-written program is its own hell.
Tao of Programming
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
The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.
Robert R. Coveyou, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
A startup now can be just a pair of 22 year old guys. A company like that can move much more easily than one with 10 people, half of whom have kids.
Paul Graham
The best writing is rewriting.
E. B. White
"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
If you use copy and paste while you're coding, you're probably committing a design error.
David Parnas