Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Don’t fix bugs later; fix them now.
Steve Maguire
My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going on to be scared.
P. J. Plauger
Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.
Jamie Zawinski
The Floppy Disk Icon means "save" for a whole generation of people who have never seen one.
Scott Hanselman
Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.
Cory Doctorow
There is nothing quite so permanent as a quick fix.
Anonymous
Think of it! With VLSI we can pack 100 ENIACS in 1 sq. cm.
Alan J. Perlis
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Antoine de Saint Exupéry
A programmer that is 10 times better than another will probably be happy making only 3 times as much.
Paul Graham
Every language has an optimization operator. In C++ that operator is ‘//’
Anonymous