Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Any code of your own that you haven't looked at for six or more months might as well have been written by someone else.
Eagleson's Law
Computers don't introduce order anywhere as much as they expose opportunities.
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'm not a great programmer; I'm just a good programmer with great habits.
Kent Beck
Software is like sex: It's better when it's free.
Linus Torvalds
It makes no sense to try to do what we can. We must do what is necessary.
Winston Churchill
Are you quite sure that all those bells and whistles, all those wonderful facilities of your so called powerful programming languages, belong to the solution set rather than the problem set?
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Within a computer natural language is unnatural.
Alan J. Perlis
Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.
Cory Doctorow
If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?
John Wooden, basketball coach