Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read.
Pliny the Elder
Memory is like an orgasm. It's a lot better if you don't have to fake it.
Seymour Cray on virtual memory
UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.
Dennis Ritchie
Ever spend a little time reading comp.lang.c++ ? That's really the best place to learn about the number of C++ users looking for a better language.
R. William Beckwith
I get as much enjoyment from trashing code as I do from scratching it out in the first place!
Anonymous
Real Programmers don't comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand.
Anonymous
Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
Alan J. Perlis
There are only two hard problems in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.
Phil Karlton
Why did the Roman Empire collapse? What is Latin for office automation?
Alan J. Perlis
Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to see it as a soap bubble?
Alan J. Perlis