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 can imagine a society in which the computer - robot is the only menial, you can imagine anything.
Alan J. Perlis
C trades a slap on the wrist at compile time for a knife in the back at run time.
Anonymous
So many good ideas are never heard from again once they embark in a voyage on the semantic gulf.
Alan J. Perlis
Never memorize what you can look up in books.
Albert Einstein
The goal of Computer Science is to build something that will last at least until we've finished building it.
Anonymous
80 percent of my problems are simple logic errors. 80 percent of the remaining problems are pointer errors. The remaining problems are hard.
Mark Donner, IBM Watson Research Center
One can only display complex information in the mind. Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.
Alan J. Perlis
Java. The elegant simplicity of C++. The blazing speed of Smalltalk.
Anonymous
Java is to JavaScript what Car is to Carpet.
Chris Heilmann
Think of it this way: threads are like salt, not like pasta. You like salt, I like salt, we all like salt. But we eat more pasta.
Larry McVoy