Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
What I cannot build, I do not understand.
Richard Feynman
The most important computer is the one that rages in our skulls and ever seeks that satisfactory external emulator. The standarization of real computers would be a disaster - and so it probably won't happen.
Alan J. Perlis
If you require information, do not free memory containing the information.
MSDN
Often it is the means that justify the ends: Goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
Alan J. Perlis
If our customers wanted a product that worked that way, tell them to purchase a product that works that way.
Anonymous
You can stand on the shoulders of giants OR a big enough pile of dwarfs, works either way.
Anonymous
What happens in the mind of a fine artist is nothing different from that going on in the mind of an expert coder. Both see and thrive in the quintessential nature of patterns.
Lawrence Mucheka
Any problem in computer science can be solved with another layer of indirection. But that usually will create another problem.
David Wheeler
It can scarcely be denied that the supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a single datum of experience.
Albert Einstein
Like a gas, software expands to fill its containing memory completely.
Anonymous