Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Users are a terrible thing. Systems would be infinitely more stable without them.
Michael T. Nygard.
Elegance is not optional.
Richard A. O'Keefe (from The Craft of Prolog)
Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction: One, it's completely impossible. Two, it's possible, but it's not worth doing. Three, I said it was a good idea all along.
Arthur C. Clarke
Memory is like an orgasm. It's a lot better if you don't have to fake it.
Seymour Cray on virtual memory
Motto for a research laboratory: What we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
Alan J. Perlis
Profanity is the one language all programmers know best.
Anonymous
Never trust a programmer in a suit.
Anonymous
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
Alan J. Perlis
No code is faster than no code.
Anonymous
We kid ourselves if we think that the ratio of procedure to data in an active data-base system can be made arbitrarily small or even kept small.
Alan J. Perlis