Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
There are 10 types of people in the world, those who can read binary, and those who can't.
Anonymous
If a listener nods his head when you're explaining your program, wake him up.
Alan J. Perlis
Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.
Jamie Zawinski
FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed — it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.
Alan J. Perlis
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Thomas A. Edison
If you require information, do not free memory containing the information.
MSDN
There will always be things we wish to say in our programs that in all known languages can only be said poorly.
Alan J. Perlis
The goal of Computer Science is to build something that will last at least until we've finished building it.
Anonymous
Programming is difficult. At its core, it is about managing complexity. Computer programs are the most complex things that humans make. Quality is illusive and elusive.
Douglas Crockford
Lines of code are only worth counting, when time has come to delete them.
Anonymous