Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone.
Bjarne Stroustrup
Some programmers, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use floating point arithmetic." Now they have 1.999999999997 problems.
Tom Scott
We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat's next-to-last theorem.
Alan J. Perlis
If a listener nods his head when you're explaining your program, wake him up.
Alan J. Perlis
Only in wealth, there is room for a bad idea.
Jasper van der Meer
As Will Rogers would have said, "There is no such thing as a free variable."
Alan J. Perlis
Mostly, when you see programmers, they aren't doing anything. One of the attractive things about programmers is that you cannot tell whether or not they are working simply by looking at them. Very often they're sitting there seemingly drinking coffee and gossiping, or just staring into space. What the programmer is trying to do is get a handle on all the individual and unrelated ideas that are scampering around in his head.
Charles M Strauss
Memory is like an orgasm. It's a lot better if you don't have to fake it.
Seymour Cray on virtual memory
You can write software expecting the hardware to be perfect, unfortunately hardware is not perfect and you have to fix it in code.
W. Giraud
Inside every complex program is a simple program trying to get out.
Anonymous