Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The reason we plan ahead is so that we don't have to do anything right now.
Anonymous
People who deal with bits should expect to get bitten.
Jon Bentley
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 trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late."
Seymour Cray
In programming, everything we do is a special case of something more general -- and often we know it too quickly.
Alan J. Perlis
We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.
Larry Wall
When I have a specific goal in mind and a complicated piece of code to write, I spend my time making it happen rather than telling myself stories about it.
Steve Yegge
The bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned. Many software tasks have this characteristic because of the sequential nature of debugging.
Fred Brooks
Every program is a part of some other program and rarely fits.
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