Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
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
A programmer started to cuss
Anonymous
Because getting to sleep was a fuss
As he lay there in bed
Looping 'round in his head
was: while(!asleep()) sheep++;
If you can build it, your users can break it.
Anonymous
One can't proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
Alan J. Perlis
Debugging is anticipated with distaste, performed with reluctance, and bragged about forever.
Dan Kaminsky
The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.
Oswald Chambers
Anything that can go wrong will go wrong, anything that can't go wrong will go wrong anyway.
Anonymous
In essence, let the market design the product.
Paul Graham
Around computers it is difficult to find the correct unit of time to measure progress. Some cathedrals took a century to complete. Can you imagine the grandeur and scope of a program that would take as long?
Alan J. Perlis
80 percent of my problems are simple logic errors. 80 percent of the remaining problems are pointer errors. The remaining problems are hard.
Mark Donner, IBM Watson Research Center