Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Confidence, n.: The feeling you have before you understand the situation.
Anonymous
In essence, let the market design the product.
Paul Graham
A startup now can be just a pair of 22 year old guys. A company like that can move much more easily than one with 10 people, half of whom have kids.
Paul Graham
Web Development is a lot like kickboxing: You have to watch your cookies.
Anonymous
We kid ourselves if we think that the ratio of procedure to data in an active data-base system can be made arbitrarily small or even kept small.
Alan J. Perlis
In C, its easy to shoot yourself in the foot. C++ makes it more difficult, but when you do, you'll blow your whole leg off.
Stroustrup
Wherever there is modularity there is the potential for misunderstanding: Hiding information implies a need to check communication.
Alan J. Perlis
In computing, invariants are ephemeral.
Alan J. Perlis
It makes no sense to try to do what we can. We must do what is necessary.
Winston Churchill
It takes an intelligent person to build something complex; it takes a genius to build something simple.
Anonymous