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
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
Pablo Picasso
Fast, Cheap, Reliable: Pick any two.
Anonymous
Brevity is the soul of wit.
Shakespeare
The function of good software is to make the complex appear to be simple.
Grady Booch
I think there's a world market for about five computers.
Thomas J Watson Senior, 1945
I couldn't resist the temptation to put in a null reference, simply because it was so easy to implement. This has led to innumerable errors, vulnerabilities, and system crashes, which have probably caused a billion dollars of pain and damage in the last forty years.
Tony (C.A.R.) Hoare
Code never lies, comments sometimes do.
Ron Jeffries
Manually managing blocks of memory in C is like juggling bars of soap in a prison shower: It's all fun and games until you forget about one of them.
Anonymous
Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
Alan J. Perlis