Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
Alan J. Perlis
Don’t fix bugs later; fix them now.
Steve Maguire
Change breaks the brittle.
Jan Houtema
When we understand knowledge-based systems, it will be as before -- except our fingertips will have been singed.
Alan J. Perlis
If at first you don't succeed, try/catch, try/catch again.
Anonymous
Programming is difficult. At its core, it is about managing complexity. Computer programs are the most complex things that humans make. Quality is illusive and elusive.
Douglas Crockford
It is easier to port a shell than a shell script.
Larry Wall
Within a computer natural language is unnatural.
Alan J. Perlis
Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.
Cory Doctorow
When in doubt, leave it out.
Joshua Bloch