Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.
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
Writing in C or C++ is like running a chain saw with all the safety guards removed.
Bob Gray
Only Half of programming is coding. The other 90% is debugging.
Anonymous
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
Alan J. Perlis
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
It takes an intelligent person to build something complex; it takes a genius to build something simple.
Anonymous
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Antoine de Saint Exupéry
Use four digits. A new millenium is coming.
Jon Bentley (1976)
We're even wrong about which mistakes we're making.
Carl Winfeld