Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
Alan J. Perlis
People who deal with bits should expect to get bitten.
Jon Bentley
Let the code run free, if it needs to be debugged, it will come back.
Anonymous
Think of compilation as cooking. Dynamic typing means the steak is juicy and still a little red, like red meat is supposed to be. Static typing means you burnt it to a crisp.
Erik Naggum
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
Fifty years of programming language research, and we end up with C++ ?
Richard A. O'Keefe
It takes an intelligent person to build something complex; it takes a genius to build something simple.
Anonymous
There is no IRL, only AFK
Anonymous
I'm not a great programmer; I'm just a good programmer with great habits.
Kent Beck
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