Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that it's all learned.
Bruce Ediger
Manually managing blocks of memory in C is like juggling bars of soap in a prison shower: It's all fun and games until you forget about one of them.
Anonymous
There are 10 types of people. Those who can read ternary, those who can't and those who mistake it for binary.
Anonymous
Nothing is more permanent than a temporary solution.
Thomas' First Law
Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written, and another for which it wasn't.
Alan J. Perlis
The primary duty of an exception handler is to get the error out of the lap of the programmer and into the surprised face of the user. Provided you keep this cardinal rule in mind, you can't go far wrong.
Verity Stob
A computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things. They are, in short, a perfect match.
Bill Bryson
Software is under a constant tension. Being symbolic it is arbitrarily perfectible; but also it is arbitrarily changeable.
Alan J. Perlis
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
Isaac Asimov
Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.
Alan Kay