Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
All programming is an exercise in caching.
Terje Mathisen
If we'd asked the customers what they wanted, they would have said "faster horses".
Henry Ford
It’s hardware that makes a machine fast. It’s software that makes a fast machine slow.
Craig Bruce
If you can't explain something to a six-year-old, you really don't understand it yourself.
Albert Einstein
One does not learn computing by using a hand calculator, but one can forget arithmetic.
Alan J. Perlis
The cybernetic exchange between man, computer and algorithm is like a game of musical chairs: The frantic search for balance always leaves one of the three standing ill at ease.
Alan J. Perlis
Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.
Andy Rooney
If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.
Edsger Dijkstra
You can have a negative percent chance of succeeding in a task. For example, if you have a -5% chance of succeeding, not only will you fail every time you make an attempt, you will also fail 1 in 20 times that you don't even try.
Anonymous
The third version is the first version that doesn't suck.
Mike Simpson