Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
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
Purely applicative languages are poorly applicable.
Alan J. Perlis
Don't worry if it doesn't work right. If everything did, you'd be out of a job.
Mosher's Law of Software Engineering
If you've seen one picture of the Mandelbrot Set, you've seen them all.
Bill Karwin
Programmers usually have good reasons for making bad decisions.
Anonymous
If you lie to the compiler, it will get its revenge.
Henry Spencere
I think Microsoft named .Net so it wouldn't show up in a Unix directory listing.
Oktal
The only constructive theory connecting neuroscience and psychology will arise from the study of software.
Alan J. Perlis
In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they're not.
Anonymous
There is not now, nor has there ever been, nor will there ever be, any programming language in which it is the least bit difficult to write bad code.
Anonymous