Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The cybernetic exchange between man, computer and algorithm is like a game of musical chairs: The frantic search for balance always leaves one of the three standing ill at ease.
Alan J. Perlis
Sure, it's overkill. But you can never have too much overkill...
Anonymous
Debugging is like farting - it's not so bad when it's your own code.
Anonymous
Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen.
Edward V Berard
Startups almost never get it right the first time. Much more commonly you launch something, and no one cares. Don’t assume when this happens that you’ve failed. That’s normal for startups. But don’t sit around doing nothing. Iterate.
Paul Graham
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
Alan J. Perlis
The key to performance is elegance, not battalions of special cases.
Jon Bentley and Doug McIlroy
Any technology that surpasses 50% penetration will never double again (in any number of months).
Peter Norvig's law
Enlightened trial and error outperforms the planning of flawless intellects.
David Kelly
An idiot with a computer is a faster, better idiot.
Rich Julius