Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
No one hates software more than software developers.
Jeff Atwood
Over the centuries the Indians developed sign language for communicating phenomena of interest. Programmers from different tribes (FORTRAN, LISP, ALGOL, SNOBOL, etc.) could use one that doesn't require them to carry a blackboard on their ponies.
Alan J. Perlis
Every language has an optimization operator. In C++ that operator is ‘//’
Anonymous
Programming is like sex: one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life.
Michael Sinz
KISS - Keep It Simple Stupid
Anonymous
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.
Anonymous
The more bizarre the behavior, the more stupid the mistake.
Ed's Law of Debugging
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
You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.
Alan J. Perlis
When I have a specific goal in mind and a complicated piece of code to write, I spend my time making it happen rather than telling myself stories about it.
Steve Yegge