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
As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought.
Maurice Wilkes
It is the user who should parameterize procedures, not their creators.
Alan J. Perlis
We're even wrong about which mistakes we're making.
Carl Winfeld
Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.
Alan J. Perlis
Multitasking is the art of distracting yourself from two things you’d rather not be doing by doing them simultaneously.
Anonymous
A logician trying to explain logic to a programmer is like a cat trying to explain to a fish what it's like to get wet.
Anonymous
The greatest performance improvement of all is when a system goes from not-working to working.
John Ousterhout
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Leonardo da Vinci
Linux is only free if your time has no value.
Jamie Zawinski
There are 10 types of people in the world, those who can read binary, and those who can't.
Anonymous