Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word "frustration".
Alan J. Perlis
A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any other invention in human history, with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.
Mitch Ratcliffe
The sooner we start coding fewer frameworks and more programs the sooner we’ll become better programmers.
Warped Java Guy Elementary Java Solutions
In my experience, one of the most significant problems in software development is assuming. If you assume a method will passed the right parameter value, the method will fail.
Paul M. Duvall
When a professional race car driver races, his pulse gets lower and he relaxes.
Jun-ichiro Hagino
When I code it is the same thing.
Java is a DSL to transform big Xml documents into long exception stack traces.
Scott Bellware
On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
Charles Babbage
Memory is like an orgasm. It's a lot better if you don't have to fake it.
Seymour Cray on virtual memory
FORTRAN, the infantile disorder, by now nearly 20 years old, is hopelessly inadequate for whatever computer application you have in mind today: it is now too clumsy, too risky, and too expensive to use.
E. W. Dijkstra
You can't communicate complexity, only an awareness of it.
Alan J. Perlis