Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The goal of Computer Science is to build something that will last at least until we've finished building it.
Anonymous
Perhaps if we wrote programs from childhood on, as adults we'd be able to read them.
Alan J. Perlis
Memory is like an orgasm. It's a lot better if you don't have to fake it.
Seymour Cray on virtual memory
The object-oriented model makes it easy to build up programs by accretion. What this often means, in practice, is that it provides a structured way to write spaghetti code.
Paul Graham
On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
Charles Babbage
A programmer that is 10 times better than another will probably be happy making only 3 times as much.
Paul Graham
It works on my machine.
Anonymous
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
Douglas Adams
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
Vincent van Gogh
Going from programming in Pascal to programming in C, is like learning to write in Morse code.
J.P. Candusso