Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned. Many software tasks have this characteristic because of the sequential nature of debugging.
Fred Brooks
Making something variable is easy. Controlling duration of constancy is the trick.
Alan J. Perlis
If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.
Robert X. Cringely
I was a C++ programmer before I started designing Ruby. I programmed in C++ exclusively for two or three years. And after two years of C++ programming, it still surprised me.
Matz
There are 10 types of people. Those who can read ternary, those who can't and those who mistake it for binary.
Anonymous
If you can build it, your users can break it.
Anonymous
Memory is like an orgasm. It's a lot better if you don't have to fake it.
Seymour Cray on virtual memory
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Sir Arthur C Clarke
Use four digits. A new millenium is coming.
Jon Bentley (1976)
The Internet? Is that thing still around?
Homer Simpson