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
Confidence, n.: The feeling you have before you understand the situation.
Anonymous
There is no programming language, no matter how structured, that will prevent programmers from making bad programs.
Larry Flon
Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
Alan J. Perlis
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
Pablo Picasso
It can scarcely be denied that the supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a single datum of experience.
Albert Einstein
The future will be like the past, because in the past the future was like the past.
About estimations
Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
Alan J. Perlis
Hardware is the part of a system you can kick. Software is the one you can only curse at.
Anonymous
Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them.
Alan J. Perlis