Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
In the good old days physicists repeated each other's experiments, just to be sure. Today they stick to FORTRAN, so that they can share each other's programs, bugs included.
Edsger W. Dijkstra
If you can imagine a society in which the computer - robot is the only menial, you can imagine anything.
Alan J. Perlis
The difference between something that can go wrong and something that can’t possibly go wrong is that when something that can’t possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.
Douglas Adams
Code reuse is the Holy Grail of Software Engineering.
Douglas Crockford
If it works, leave it alone — there's no need to understand it. If it fails, try to fix it — there's no time to understand it.
Bill Pfeifer
If you get it free, it is worthless. If you pay for it, it has value. If you build it yourself, it is priceless.
Raj More
If you require information, do not free memory containing the information.
MSDN
Web Development is a lot like kickboxing: You have to watch your cookies.
Anonymous
Any problem in computer science can be solved with another layer of indirection. But that usually will create another problem.
David Wheeler
They did not know it was impossible, so they did it!
Mark Twain