Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
With all due respect John, I am the head of IT and I have it on good authority. If you type "Google" into Google, you can break the Internet.
Jen, "The IT Crowd"
Profanity is the one language all programmers know best.
Anonymous
A fool with a tool is still a fool.
Anonymous
Re graphics: A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
Alan J. Perlis
Memory is like an orgasm. It's a lot better if you don't have to fake it.
Seymour Cray on virtual memory
There's a fine line between being on the leading edge and being in the lunatic fringe.
Frank Armstrong
An ideal world is left as an exercise to the reader.
From Paul Graham's "On Lisp"
The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague.
Edsger Dijkstra
Shipping is a feature.
Richard Campbell
It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all...
Larry Wall