Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
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
Some programmers try to reach higher by standing on other programmers' shoulders. Other programmers try to reach higher by standing on other programmers' toes.
Anonymous
Software isn't about methodologies, languages, or even operating systems. It is about working applications.
Christopher Baus
I think there's a world market for about five computers.
Thomas J Watson Senior, 1945
When we write programs that "learn", it turns out that we do and they don't.
Alan J. Perlis
Re graphics: A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
Alan J. Perlis
If you require information, do not free memory containing the information.
MSDN
Let the code run free, if it needs to be debugged, it will come back.
Anonymous
The latest new features in C++ are designed to fix the previously new features in C++.
David Jameson
If you can build it, your users can break it.
Anonymous