Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls must dive down below.
John Dryden
Starting a startup is hard, but having a 9 to 5 job is hard too, and in some ways a worse kind of hard.
Paul Graham
As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.
Dave Parnas
Simplicity - the art of maximizing the amount of work not done - is essential.
Agile Manifesto
Team debugging: the act of intimidating a PC into doing for two people what it refuses to do for one.
Anonymous
In the long run every program becomes rococo - then rubble.
Alan J. Perlis
Programming is difficult. At its core, it is about managing complexity. Computer programs are the most complex things that humans make. Quality is illusive and elusive.
Douglas Crockford
It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC. As potential programmers, they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.
E. W. Dijkstra
Saying that Java is good because it works on all platforms is like saying anal sex is good because it works on all genders.
Anonymous
A computer programmer is a device for turning coffee into bugs.
Bram Moolenaar