Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The Floppy Disk Icon means "save" for a whole generation of people who have never seen one.
Scott Hanselman
Processes and methodologies can make good servants but are poor masters.
Mark Dowd, John McDonald & Justin Schuh
If architects built houses the way programmers built programs, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization.
Gerald Weinberg
On the 7th day ... God began debugging.
Anonymous
Question: How does a large software project get to be one year late? Answer: One day at a time!
Fred Brooks
Good programmers learn more from "That's not what I expected!" than from getting it right the first time.
Anonymous
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
Re graphics: A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
Alan J. Perlis
In a 5 year period we get one superb programming language. Only we can't control when the 5 year period will be.
Alan J. Perlis
A well-written program is its own heaven; a poorly-written program is its own hell.
Tao of Programming