Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
I (...) am rarely happier than when spending an entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that would otherwise take me a good ten seconds to do by hand.
Douglas Adams
Easy things should be easy and hard things should be possible.
Larry Wall
C(++) is a write-only, high-level assembler language.
Stefan Van Baelen
Human beings are not accustomed to being perfect, and few areas of human activity demand it. Adjusting to the requirement for perfection is, I think, the most difficult part of learning to program.
Anonymous
If our customers wanted a product that worked that way, tell them to purchase a product that works that way.
Anonymous
A good system can't have a weak command language.
Alan J. Perlis
I invented the term Object-Oriented, and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
Alan Kay
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
Memory is like an orgasm. It's a lot better if you don't have to fake it.
Seymour Cray on virtual memory
I would love to change the world, but they won't give me the source code.
Anonymous