Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
Douglas Adams
Memory is like an orgasm. It's a lot better if you don't have to fake it.
Seymour Cray on virtual memory
People who deal with bits should expect to get bitten.
Jon Bentley
Are you quite sure that all those bells and whistles, all those wonderful facilities of your so called powerful programming languages, belong to the solution set rather than the problem set?
Edsger W. Dijkstra
You want a dot operator in PHP?
Matthew Leffler
eval(str_replace('.', '->', $code_with_dot_operator))
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
Alan J. Perlis
One does not learn computing by using a hand calculator, but one can forget arithmetic.
Alan J. Perlis
A logician trying to explain logic to a programmer is like a cat trying to explain to a fish what it's like to get wet.
Anonymous
An ideal world is left as an exercise to the reader.
From Paul Graham's "On Lisp"
C++: an octopus made by nailing extra legs onto a dog.
Steve Taylor