Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If you give someone a program, you will frustrate them for a day; if you teach them how to program, you will frustrate them for a lifetime.
Anonymous
Computation has made the tree flower.
Alan J. Perlis
Use four digits. A new millenium is coming.
Jon Bentley (1976)
Linux is only free if your time has no value.
Jamie Zawinski
If you require information, do not free memory containing the information.
MSDN
Software and cathedrals are much the same - first we build them, then we pray.
Anonymous
Weeks of coding can save you hours of planning.
Anonymous
If you want to confuse your enemies, give them the source code. If you want to really confuse them, give them the documentation.
Anonymous
C++ is to C as Lung Cancer is to Lung.
Anonymous
On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
Charles Babbage