Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Don’t fix bugs later; fix them now.
Steve Maguire
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
Rich Cook
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
Vincent van Gogh
It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all...
Larry Wall
A good programmer looks both ways before crossing a one-way street.
Anonymous
In essence, let the market design the product.
Paul Graham
Better train people and risk they leave – than do nothing and risk they stay.
Anonymous
In a world without walls and fences, who needs Windows and Gates?
Anonymous
Computers are getting smarter all the time. Scientists tell us that soon they will be able to talk to us. (And by 'they', I mean 'computers'. I doubt scientists will ever be able to talk to us.)
Dave Barry
Think of it this way: threads are like salt, not like pasta. You like salt, I like salt, we all like salt. But we eat more pasta.
Larry McVoy