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
There is no IRL, only AFK
Anonymous
You think you know when you can learn, are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
Alan J. Perlis
If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution.
Robert Sewell
If you give someone a program, you will frustrate them for a day; if you teach them how to program, you will frustrate them for a lifetime.
Anonymous
* No technique works if it isn't used.
Niven's laws
* Ethics change with technology.
* "F × S = k" the product of freedom and security is a constant.
The more bizarre the behavior, the more stupid the mistake.
Ed's Law of Debugging
Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to rewrite (and reuse).
Eric Raymond
I will not be a lemming and follow the crowd over the cliff and into the C.
John Beidler
You want a dot operator in PHP?
Matthew Leffler
eval(str_replace('.', '->', $code_with_dot_operator))
Computers are getting smarter all the time. Scientists tell us that soon they will be able to talk to us. (And by 'they', I mean 'computers'. I doubt scientists will ever be able to talk to us.)
Dave Barry