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
Working software is the primary measure of progress.
Agile Manifesto
Ready, fire, aim: the fast approach to software development. Ready, aim, aim, aim, aim: the slow approach to software development.
Anonymous
Enlightened trial and error outperforms the planning of flawless intellects.
David Kelly
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction.
E.F. Schumacher
We're even wrong about which mistakes we're making.
Carl Winfeld
If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?
John Wooden, basketball coach
Before software should be reusable, it should be usable.
Ralph Johnson
Manually managing blocks of memory in C is like juggling bars of soap in a prison shower: It's all fun and games until you forget about one of them.
Anonymous
If we'd asked the customers what they wanted, they would have said "faster horses".
Henry Ford
A well-written program is its own heaven; a poorly-written program is its own hell.
Tao of Programming