Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.
Albert Einstein
In software, the most beautiful code, the most beautiful functions, and the most beautiful programs are sometimes not there at all.
Jon Bentley
In C, its easy to shoot yourself in the foot. C++ makes it more difficult, but when you do, you'll blow your whole leg off.
Stroustrup
Memory is like an orgasm. It's a lot better if you don't have to fake it.
Seymour Cray on virtual memory
One programmer can do in one day what two programmers can do in two.
Anonymous
Question: How does a large software project get to be one year late? Answer: One day at a time!
Fred Brooks
Anyone who has a wife and small kids knows that programming belongs to the easy things in life.
Anonymous
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
Douglas Adams
In the long run every program becomes rococo - then rubble.
Alan J. Perlis
I know it doesn't sound like a big effort, but programmers are really, really lazy, and they like to minimize motion. They'd use feeder tubes if the Health Department would let them.
Steve Yegge