Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
You can't solve social problems through technical means.
Anonymous
To understand a program you must become both the machine and the program.
Alan J. Perlis
Any code of your own that you haven't looked at for six or more months might as well have been written by someone else.
Eagleson's Law
Any set of procedures, no matter how well intentioned or useful, that are too difficult to follow, will be circumvented.
Ravera's First Law of System Administration
The key to performance is elegance, not battalions of special cases.
Jon Bentley and Doug McIlroy
He who hasn't hacked assembly language as a youth has no heart. He who does as an adult has no brain.
John Moore
To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer.
Paul Ehrlich
Memory is like an orgasm. It's a lot better if you don't have to fake it.
Seymour Cray on virtual memory
Software is like sex: It's better when it's free.
Linus Torvalds
Code never lies, comments sometimes do.
Ron Jeffries