Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Fast, Cheap, Reliable: Pick any two.
Anonymous
Think of it! With VLSI we can pack 100 ENIACS in 1 sq. cm.
Alan J. Perlis
Good judgement is the result of experience ... Experience is the result of bad judgement.
Fred Brooks
C trades a slap on the wrist at compile time for a knife in the back at run time.
Anonymous
All real programmers know C of course.
Jeff Atwood
Just don't create a file called -rf.
Larry Wall
Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
Alan J. Perlis
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'
Isaac Asimov
Profanity is the one language all programmers know best.
Anonymous
Sometimes, the elegant implementation is just a function. Not a method. Not a class. Not a framework. Just a function.
John Carmack