Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
They did not know it was impossible, so they did it!
Mark Twain
Programming is like sex: one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life.
Michael Sinz
It takes an intelligent person to build something complex; it takes a genius to build something simple.
Anonymous
One does not learn computing by using a hand calculator, but one can forget arithmetic.
Alan J. Perlis
All parts should go together without forcing. You must remember that the parts you are reassembling were disassembled by you. Therefore, if you can't get them together again, there must be a reason. By all means, do not use a hammer.
IBM Manual, 1925
Memory is like an orgasm. It's a lot better if you don't have to fake it.
Seymour Cray on virtual memory
The cheapest, fastest, and most reliable components are those that aren't there.
Gordon Bell
The Internet? Is that thing still around?
Homer Simpson
The goal is to deliver clean code that works - now.
Kent Beck
An idiot with a computer is a faster, better idiot.
Rich Julius