Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
One can only display complex information in the mind. Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.
Alan J. Perlis
If we'd asked the customers what they wanted, they would have said "faster horses".
Henry Ford
Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.
Murphy's Law
When it comes to code it never pays to rush.
Marick's Law
Nothing is more permanent than a temporary solution.
Thomas' First Law
Memory is like an orgasm. It's a lot better if you don't have to fake it.
Seymour Cray on virtual memory
God could create the world in six days because he didn't have to make it compatible with the previous version.
Anonymous
I know it doesn't sound like a big effort, but programmers are really, really lazy, and they like to minimize motion. They'd use feeder tubes if the Health Department would let them.
Steve Yegge
One does not learn computing by using a hand calculator, but one can forget arithmetic.
Alan J. Perlis
Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
Alan J. Perlis