Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
You think you know when you can learn, are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
Alan J. Perlis
People who find Wiki-markup too difficult to use and need a WYSIWYG-editor shouldn't be using a Wiki in the first place.
Anonymous
PHP is a minor evil perpetrated and created by incompetent amateurs, whereas Perl is a great and insidious evil perpetrated by skilled but perverted professionals.
Jon Ribbens
The proof of a system's value is its existence.
Alan J. Perlis
From a programmer's point of view, the user is a peripheral that types when you issue a read request.
Peter Williams
If your bug has a one in a million chance of happening, it'll happen next tuesday.
Anonymous
Perspective is worth 80 I.Q. points
Alan Kay
Memory is like an orgasm. It's a lot better if you don't have to fake it.
Seymour Cray on virtual memory
Every language has an optimization operator. In C++ that operator is ‘//’
Anonymous
It can scarcely be denied that the supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a single datum of experience.
Albert Einstein