Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Memory is like an orgasm. It's a lot better if you don't have to fake it.
Seymour Cray on virtual memory
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.
Anonymous
Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.
Brian Kernighan
A programmer never dies he just degrades gracefully.
Anonymous
The whole HTML validation exercise is questionable, but validating as XHTML is flat-out masochism. Only recommended for those that enjoy pain. Or programmers. I can't always tell the difference.
Jeff Atwood
One Page Principle: A specification that will not fit on one page of 8.5x11 inch paper cannot be understood.
Mark Ardis
In the good old days physicists repeated each other's experiments, just to be sure. Today they stick to FORTRAN, so that they can share each other's programs, bugs included.
Edsger W. Dijkstra
In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
Alan J. Perlis
Computation has made the tree flower.
Alan J. Perlis
If it is worth doing once, it is worth automating...
Anonymous