Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If you require information, do not free memory containing the information.
MSDN
Prolonged contact with the computer turns mathematicians into clerks and vice versa.
Alan J. Perlis
The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague.
Edsger Dijkstra
Memory is like an orgasm. It's a lot better if you don't have to fake it.
Seymour Cray on virtual memory
Deleted code is debugged code.
Jeff Sickel
Fight code entropy.
John Carmack
First, solve the problem. Then, write the code.
John Johnson
Sometimes, the elegant implementation is just a function. Not a method. Not a class. Not a framework. Just a function.
John Carmack
The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.
Larry Wall
Software Engineering isn't rocket science ... it's harder.
Anonymous