Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The third version is the first version that doesn't suck.
Mike Simpson
To understand a program you must become both the machine and the program.
Alan J. Perlis
When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
Alan J. Perlis
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
Douglas Adams
C++ is an horrible language. Even if the choice of C were to do *nothing* but keep the C++ programmers out, that in itself would be a huge reason to use C.
Linus Torvalds
Memory is like an orgasm. It's a lot better if you don't have to fake it.
Seymour Cray on virtual memory
Any fool can use a computer. Many do.
Ted Nelson
The future will be like the past, because in the past the future was like the past.
About estimations
My programs don't have bugs, they just develop random features.
Anonymous
In seeking the unattainable, simplicity only gets in the way.
Alan J. Perlis