Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
There is not now, nor has there ever been, nor will there ever be, any programming language in which it is the least bit difficult to write bad code.
Anonymous
Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from a rigged demonstration.
Anonymous
Memory is like an orgasm. It's a lot better if you don't have to fake it.
Seymour Cray on virtual memory
Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.
Cory Doctorow
C++: an octopus made by nailing extra legs onto a dog.
Steve Taylor
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
Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
Alan J. Perlis
One can't proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
Alan J. Perlis
If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.
Edsger Dijkstra
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Leonardo da Vinci