Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The computer is the ultimate polluter: its feces are indistinguish- able from the food it produces.
Alan J. Perlis
It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all...
Larry Wall
Memory is like an orgasm. It's a lot better if you don't have to fake it.
Seymour Cray on virtual memory
You're never done, you just run out of time.
Anonymous
The future will be like the past, because in the past the future was like the past.
About estimations
There are 10 types of people in the world, those who can read binary, and those who can't.
Anonymous
It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program. What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail and learning to be self-critical?
Alan J. Perlis
One does not learn computing by using a hand calculator, but one can forget arithmetic.
Alan J. Perlis
Singleton is a misconcept in OOP unless it's used as a misconcepted paradigm for application development.
Anonymous
The real money isn't in the software. It's in the service you build with that software.
Jeff Atwood