Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
In essence, let the market design the product.
Paul Graham
We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.
Larry Wall
When in doubt, leave it out.
Joshua Bloch
The latest new features in C++ are designed to fix the previously new features in C++.
David Jameson
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
The C Programming Language — A language which combines the flexibility of assembly language with the power of assembly language.
Anonymous
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked.
John Gall
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
E. W. Dijkstra
People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
Alan Kay
We have the mini and the micro computer. In what semantic niche would the pico computer fall?
Alan J. Perlis