Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
An idiot with a computer is a faster, better idiot.
Rich Julius
In effect, we conjure the spirits of the computer with our spells.
From SICP
I will not be a lemming and follow the crowd over the cliff and into the C.
John Beidler
On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
Charles Babbage
The key to performance is elegance, not battalions of special cases.
Jon Bentley and Doug McIlroy
The best thing about a boolean is even if you are wrong, you are only off by a bit.
Anonymous
Good design adds value faster than it adds cost.
Thomas C. Gale
I went to school to learn how to program software applications, which inevitably have bug defects. There was no course at my university on testing, debugging, profiling, or optimization. These things you have to learn on your own, usually in a tight deadline.
Juixe TechKnow
What is the difference between a Turing machine and the modern computer? It's the same as that between Hillary's ascent of Everest and the establishment of a Hilton hotel on its peak.
Alan J. Perlis
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