Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If architects built houses the way programmers built programs, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization.
Gerald Weinberg
For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
H L Mencken
Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter.
Eric Raymond
You can't communicate complexity, only an awareness of it.
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
All real programmers know C of course.
Jeff Atwood
Programmer - an organism that turns coffee into software.
Anonymous
If at first you don't succeed, try/catch, try/catch again.
Anonymous
The function of good software is to make the complex appear to be simple.
Grady Booch
The most important computer is the one that rages in our skulls and ever seeks that satisfactory external emulator. The standarization of real computers would be a disaster - and so it probably won't happen.
Alan J. Perlis