Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction: One, it's completely impossible. Two, it's possible, but it's not worth doing. Three, I said it was a good idea all along.
Arthur C. Clarke
Good software, like wine, takes time.
Joel Spolsky
Don’t fix bugs later; fix them now.
Steve Maguire
To iterate is human, to recurse divine.
L. Peter Deutsch
In a world without walls and fences, who needs Windows and Gates?
Anonymous
I was a C++ programmer before I started designing Ruby. I programmed in C++ exclusively for two or three years. And after two years of C++ programming, it still surprised me.
Matz
Software with no bugs is obsolete.
Anonymous
The proof of a system's value is its existence.
Alan J. Perlis
UNIX is user friendly. It just picks whom it wants to be friends with.
Anonymous
Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen.
Edward V Berard